Similarly, American sociologist Patricia Hill Collins characterized the features of "Black feminist epistemology" as "lived experience as a criterion of meaning". She argued that among many black women, personal experience was treated as being more epistemologically valuable than science or theory because it was based on immediate reality.
The reason for this seems to be that our empirical knowledge is based on immediate perceptual judgments, i.e., judgments that "grasp" (in the sense of G) a certain kind of an empirical proposition.
Postoperative radiographic measurements were based on immediate post-removal radiographs.
Because the LABKA systems in the two regions function as an indispensable daily routine diagnostic tool for all medical personnel, and is based on immediate direct entry of approved results into the system, the proportion of missing data in the LABKA system (and in turn in the LABKA research database) is extremely low.
Beliefs like this, perceptual beliefs, are based on the immediate experience (sensory intuition) I have of a cat sleeping in front of me; they are not the sensory intuition itself.
By noticing that your current considerations are based on an immediate benefit and being sensitive to the fact that other people and entities whom your decisions affect may have a different horizon for their own considerations, you can be a better leader, partner and negotiator.
Most reported evaluations of short courses are based on the immediate views of participants.
We hypothesised that if deontological judgments against personal harm are based on an immediate negative affective response then propranolol, compared to placebo, should lead to an increase in utilitarian judgement (Levy, 2007).
67 Furthermore, a family-centred model of decision-making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.
Your book points out that the composition of some of the world's most important organizations – U.N. Security Council, IMF – are based on the world order in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
