Sentence examples for between theory and empiricism from inspiring English sources

Another special feature of his approach to science was the difficult balance he always maintained between theory and empiricism.

There seems to be some degree of coordination between theory and empiricism.

Each of these multinational, multidisciplinary initiatives blurs the boundaries between theory and empiricism, with models driving empirical questions, and the resultant data feeding back into improved models of marine systems.

The authors reported that 5 months after the intervention, 41% of participants retained their ideas of scientific empiricism and 94% of participants retained understanding of the differences between theories and laws.

Akerson et al. (2000), for example, taught reflective, explicit, activity-based instruction on TA-NOS for graduate students in elementary education for one semester (weekly in 3-h blocks) and found that 24% of participants developed adequate understanding of empiricism and 56% of participants developed adequate understanding of the differences between theories and laws.

Our study found larger gains, and illustrated that 71% of participants developed adequate understanding of empiricism and 86% of participants developed adequate understanding of the differences between theories and laws.

Feminist epistemologists have developed their approaches to the situatedness of knowledge within three broad epistemological traditions: standpoint theory, postmodernism, and empiricism.

Thiel compares the difference between faith and empiricism to the difference between technology and globalization: "Technology maps to miraculous supernatural creation, and globalization maps to naturalistic uniformitarian evolution.

The second debate related to the problem of the origins of knowledge is that between rationalism and empiricism.

This debate between intuition and empiricism is as old as Plato, who thought that knowledge came from intuitive reasoning, and Aristotle, who preferred observation.

Somewhat confusingly (considering his name), Sextus discusses differences between Pyrrhonism and empiricism, and says that skepticism is closer to medical methodism than to empiricism (Allen 2010).