Scientific history also shows that as empirical knowledge increases, we tend to converge on a shared explanation.
Your Guide to the Many Meanings of Quantum Mechanics - Facts So Romantic|Sabine Hossenfelder|September 3, 2020|Nautilus
As a philosopher who focuses on the study of animal cognition, I examine both empirical and theoretical work to answer these types of questions.
Animals That Can Do Math Understand More Language Than We Think|Erik Nelson|June 14, 2020|Singularity Hub
According to Raposo, it “called the attention of many scientists working in the area to the use of more powerful and modern statistical techniques of empirical data analysis of animal movement.”
Random Search Wired Into Animals May Help Them Hunt|Liam Drew|June 11, 2020|Quanta Magazine
For economists who already felt confident in the theoretical arguments against rent control, research like Diamond’s provides empirical evidence that essentially tells the same story.
Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Ep. 373 Rebroadcast)|Stephen J. Dubner|March 12, 2020|Freakonomics
So Bob, you and your fellow C-POST researchers try to use empirical means, data analysis — when available — to understand foreign policy.
Speak Softly and Carry Big Data (Ep. 395)|Stephen J. Dubner|October 31, 2019|Freakonomics
How do archaeologists wrap an empirical mind around capturing history?
The Real-Life Raiders of the Lost Ark|Alex Belth|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Overall, the weight of the empirical evidence supports these essentially conservative arguments for the minimum wage.
To Make Their Victory Durable, the GOP Must Fix the Minimum Wage|Dmitri Mehlhorn|November 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In all, Schwitzgebel thinks that this study has been an important step forward in empirical research of morality.
It’s Official: Religion Doesn’t Make You More Moral|Elizabeth Picciuto|September 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
No empirical data support his claim that the birth of a baby with Down syndrome makes the world—or the baby—unhappier.
Richard Dawkins Would Fail Philosophy 101|Elizabeth Picciuto|August 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Morris thinks this question is an empirical one, and his new book proposes an answer that he finds astonishing.
War! What Is It Good For? A Lot|Nick Romeo|August 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A very different type of method is taught by many teachers who pay special attention to the empirical topics of instruction.
The Psychology of Singing|David C. Taylor
If this theory were sound, science would be confined to the observation of empirical laws.
Logic, Inductive and Deductive|William Minto
But the certainty thus arrived at can be only that of an empirical law, true within the limits of the observations.
Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic|William Stebbing
They regulate the understanding in its empirical pursuit of that systematic unity which it requires for its own satisfaction.
A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'|Norman Kemp Smith
Here also he endeavoured to separate pure a priori from empirical a posteriori knowledge.
The Basis of Morality|Arthur Schopenhauer
British Dictionary definitions for empirical
empirical
/ (ɛmˈpɪrɪkəl) /
adjective
derived from or relating to experiment and observation rather than theory
(of medical treatment) based on practical experience rather than scientific proof
philosophy
(of knowledge) derived from experience rather than by logic from first principlesCompare a priori, a posteriori
(of a proposition) subject, at least theoretically, to verificationCompare analytic (def. 4), synthetic (def. 4)
of or relating to medical quackery
noun
statisticsthe posterior probability of an event derived on the basis of its observed frequency in a sampleCompare mathematical probability See also posterior probability