The phrase "a source of empirical" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that provides empirical evidence or data for research or analysis.
Example: "The study serves as a source of empirical evidence to support the hypothesis."
Alternatives: "a source of evidence" or "a source of data".
Evolutionary psychology is also invoked by philosophers interested in moral psychology both as a source of empirical hypotheses and as a critical target.
For philosophers of mind and cognitive science evolutionary psychology has been a source of empirical hypotheses about cognitive architecture and specific components of that architecture.
The most promising account of a priori justification in terms of a nonexperiential source of evidence is one that sees intellectual intuition, rational insight, or apparent rational insight, as providing the relevant a priori evidence with its source being reason, not some special faculty of intuition analogous, say, to sight, which is a source of empirical evidence.
Such observations constitute a source of empirical elements for a substantive theoretical elaboration of the peculiar characteristics of medical care as an economic category.
Thus long-term monitoring appears to be a source of crucial empirical information as a basis for the optimisation of therapy.
For those who think that some (or all) of our moral psychology is based in innate capacities, evolutionary psychology is a good source of empirical results and empirically based theory.
Furthermore, using learning algorithms such as the neuro-evolution of augmenting topologies it is also possible to learn the neural network topology which is a common source of empirical testing in neuro-controllers design.
Crucially, electrophysiological studies of oscillations provide a rich source of empirical data for estimating synaptic efficacy.
The transcribed interviews and field notes comprised more than 500 pages and provided a rich source of empirical data.
It provides a critical source of empirical data to improve the ethically responsible conduct of research, develop culturally and ethically sensitive delivery of interventions, identify ethically significant blind spots in the measurement of the disease burden, and inform policy change.
This generalization is often a source of errors in some empirical studies (e.g. pore pressure analysis, reservoir characterization, top seal identification and geomechanical studies) that require to work with lithology-specific functions.
