Sentence examples for empirical elements from inspiring English sources

Thus, as in his epistemology, both a priori and empirical elements combined in the development of his scientific methodology.

Whewell believed that gaining knowledge requires attention to both ideal and empirical elements, to ideas as well as sensations.

Political philosophy is also to be distinguished within practical philosophy from both empirical elements and from virtue proper.

Theoretical investigation was not among the aims of this study, which nevertheless added some empirical elements to the debate, as we briefly summarised in Table 5 above.

Indeed, the latter begins with a consideration of motion in abstraction from various physical questions like the mass of the objects and then slowly progresses by adding further physical (or empirical) elements.

Reductive and connective, revisionary and descriptive, linguistic and psychological, formal and empirical elements all coexist in creative tension; and it is this creative tension that is the great strength of the analytic tradition.

"There was a pretty big empirical element in all this," says Cottingham.

Nonetheless, the assertion of the empirical data D is the only empirical element in the probability judgement, which otherwise has no testable implications for experience.

There have been many large national and international efforts that have led to a well-established validation methodology comprising analytical, inter-program comparison and empirical validation elements, and a significant number of tests have been developed.

He criticized Kant and the German Idealists for their exclusive focus on the ideal or subjective element, and Locke and the "Sensationalist School" for their exclusive focus on the empirical, objective element.

Furthermore, the tensile plastic strain was quantitatively modeled by using the empirical microstructural element body approach as well as percolation theory.