Williams advanced the well-known argument that mentalism (based on Cartesian dualism) cannot be empirically tested, since there are no criteria of identity of the mind defined as an immaterial substance.
Complex software cannot be empirically tested and, I suggest, neither can the products of genetic editing.
ID is not a scientifically acceptable proposal because it cannot be empirically tested, nor has it produced any scientific results.
Such a claim cannot be empirically tested, but to illustrate why this perspective should be taken seriously, forthcoming findings from an RSA/YouGov national survey earlier this year, supported by the Climate Change Collaboration, indicates that around 64% of the British population may be in 'stealth denial'.
But these eminent theoreticians also have their detractors, who argue that the field of physics can no longer afford to pursue speculative lines of research that, as far as anyone can see at the present time, cannot be empirically tested.
Einstein's theory could be empirically tested by observing the degree of refraction of starlight by the Sun, best achieved at a full eclipse.
The theoretical framework and the associated hypotheses are empirically tested by a survey of 32 organizations.
The suggested technique is empirically tested by stock price series from seven markets.
The nexus between economic growth and natural disasters was empirically tested by Albala-Bertrand (1993) using regression methods.
Of the major philosophical theories on the origin of environmental crisis, Lynn White's is the only one to have been empirically tested by social scientists.
Such customization must be empirically tested, because the original model cannot contain an appropriate set of predictive variables for the particular group.
