Sentence examples for empirical concept from inspiring English sources

Kant is perfectly well aware of these details from the Scholium to the Principia, but he makes it clear in the Transcendental Aesthetic that he wishes to bracket questions concerning the motion of objects, because motion is an empirical concept, and the Aesthetic aims to articulate a purely a priori conception of space (see A 41/B 58; also MFNS, 4: 482).

Politics, in her work, is not really an empirical concept — an affair of elections and legislation, still less of tax policy or Social Security reform.

She is particularly interested in how descriptive and normative categories tailored to the nation-state apply to institutions that wield political power beyond that context.Professor Isiksel is currently at work on a book manuscript that evaluates the extent to which constitutionalism, as a normative and empirical concept, can be adapted to supranational institutions.

Consider for example the empirical concept "colour" and its coordinate species "red" and "blue", or the empirical concept "mammal" and its coordinate species "cow" and "goat".

In fact, we must use a number of concepts: number, quality, modality, and, of course, the specific empirical concept of the object we are recognizing.

As the terminology is used here, desert is a more purely normative concept, while entitlement is a sociological or empirical concept.

But they differ from empirical concepts in something more than their origin: their whole role in knowledge is different.

For, whereas empirical concepts serve to correlate particular experiences and so to bring out in a detailed way how experience is ordered, the categories have the function of prescribing the general form that this detailed order must take.

As psychological and empirical concepts, they do not belong to aesthetics; and as a whole, in their common quality, they refer merely to the world of feelings, empirically grouped and classified, which forms the permanent matter of artistic intuition.

Based on empirical concepts, the heuristic models currently used in the framework of standard stability analysis suffer from a lack of predictive capabilities.

Moreover, to the extent that the principle is seen as required not only for the construction of systematic scientific theories, but also for the recognition of nature's empirical lawlikeness or (even more fundamentally) for the possibility of any empirical concept-formation at all, it takes on great importance for an understanding of Kant's views on empirical cognition generally.