Sentence examples for empirical adequacy from inspiring English sources

His position, constructive empiricism, holds that the aim of science is empirical adequacy, where 'a theory is empirically adequate exactly if what it says about the observable things and events in the world, is true' (p. 12; p. 64 gives a more technical definition in terms of the embedding of observable structures in scientific models).

That Everett's notion of empirical faithfulness is a relatively weak version of empirical adequacy, then, is exhibited in what pure wave mechanics, being empirically faithful, does not explain.

Although the internal consistency and empirical adequacy of the relationist position is unassailable, it comes at a certain conceptual price, for it appears that the laws of the decays of the particles in question now have a curiously "nonlocal" character, in the sense that they seem to require action at both a spatial and a temporal distance.

These criteria include simplicity, empirical adequacy and others.

But Wylie points out that "empirical adequacy" is ambiguous.

It is thus difficult to distinguish between experimentally motivated questions about the empirical adequacy of microeconomic theory and questions about the empirical adequacy of game theory.

For a discussion of empirical adequacy and Ramsification see Ketland (2004).

Memory contents for each instant are enough to make empirical adequacy possible.

So there's no danger of relativism about empirical adequacy (van Fraassen 1980, 57 58).

Thus values have the potential to increase the empirical adequacy of an account.

Unfortunately, energy models have a rather poor history of empirical adequacy (aka model fit) [35, 36].