Sentence examples for empirical foundations from inspiring English sources

Kant reiterated Tetens' emphasis on the importance of empirical foundations for philosophical studies.

They initially built sweeping statements on sparse empirical foundations, but 30 years later this has evolved into a powerful performative marketing machine.

Malaysia more or less stopped issuing work permits in 2009.Yet the "buffer theory" seems to be based on weak empirical foundations.

Albert Einstein once warned: "Time and again the passion for understanding has led to the illusion that man is able to comprehend the objective world rationally by pure thought without any empirical foundations – in short, by metaphysics".

It is notable that the empirical foundations of physiology were being established in the studies of the human body being conducted in medieval schools of medicine and, as the career of Leonardo da Vinci so resplendently illustrates, among artists of the Renaissance, whose interest in accuracy and detail of painting and sculpture led to their careful studies of human anatomy.

Then, when the hold of scholasticism did begin to wane, two fresh influences, equally powerful, came on the scene to prevent anything comparable to the pragmatic and empirical foundations of the physical sciences from forming in the study of man and society.

The paranoia over the deficit is particularly pernicious, and particularly lacking in empirical foundation.

One problem with this conservative view is its lack of an empirical foundation.

The UN inquiry gathered facts which are "the empirical foundation for application of international law and of universal opinion", said Kirby.

Although Cuvier's doctrine of catastrophism did not last, he did set the science of paleontology on a firm empirical foundation.

After Charles Darwin's introduction of the principles of organic evolution, Candolle's criteria provided the empirical foundation for a modern evolutionary history of plants.