Sentence examples for empirical definition from inspiring English sources
Every historical age has used its (philosophical or empirical) definition of humanity to separate between rulers, ruled and excluded.
In a splendid piece of understatement, Stanley G. Payne, a historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on Franco's Spain, remarked, "The absence of an empirical definition of what is meant by fascism has been an obstacle to conceptual clarification".
Celebrity has no empirical definition.
thus obeying the empirical definition of range given at the beginning.
It was not until 2007 that an operational, empirical definition of augmentation (Max Planck Institute Criteria) was made.
Consistence refers to the internal logical construction of systems as well as the "empirical definition" of the systems terms.
"On virtually all conceptual and empirical definitions, O'Connor is the court's center — the median, the key, the critical and the swing justice," Andrew D. Martin and two colleagues wrote in a study published in 2005 in The North Carolina Law Review shortly before Justice O'Connor's retirement.
Empirical definitions of these tyre-deck load profiles are proposed, based partly on use of the field data in FE analysis.
We also explore alternative empirical definitions of what constitutes a busy director and find that commonly used proxies for busyness perform well relative to more complex alternatives.
We aimed to (1) investigate the degree of overlap among empirical definitions of wisdom, (2) identify the most commonly cited wisdom subcomponents, (3) examine the psychometric properties of existing assessment instruments, and (4) investigate whether certain assessment procedures work particularly well in tapping the essence of subcomponents of the various empirical definitions.
One element of this theory is what he calls 'the fallacy involved in all empirical definitions of the good', which is immediately recognisable as a precursor of his famous claim in Principia Ethica that there is a fallacy, the 'naturalistic fallacy', in all naturalistic definitions of goodness.
