Sentence examples for empirical orientation from inspiring English sources

Modern economics differs from earlier work most markedly in its quantitative, empirical orientation.

The Fregean shift toward sentences as the basic unit of meaning entailed that such an account based on individual words and ideas and based on a simple sensory model of the mind needed revision, but its basic empirical orientation remained.

In the third section, I will consider its empirical orientation in practical social theory and practical social inquiry that aims at promoting democratic norms.

In this respect, embodied cognitive science is not simply (or chiefly) a philosophical mantra empty of empirical content, but a cluster of perspectives on cognition whose empirical orientation and rootedness cannot be questioned.

DEA's empirical orientation and absence of a priori assumptions establish it as the ideal analytical instrument for application to a wide variety of practical situations, since its underlying theoretical basis is consistent with the practice of rating entities by concurrently examining the relative efficiencies of their multiple performance measures.

From conceptual and empirical perspectives, market orientation has been proven to relate positively to firm profitability.

Models containing recurrent connections amongst the cells within a population can account for a range of empirical data on orientation selectivity in striate cortex.

The elaborated system of sustainability indicators provides a theoretical link between normative orientation and empirical needs and a holistic and differentiated picture of the complex German energy system and its dynamic transition.

Overall the studies lack explicit theoretical orientation, and empirical studies were scarce until 2010.

While many empirical studies focus on market orientation, the generalization of its impact on innovation ambidexterity is yet to be explored.

The empirical reality is that sexual orientation is a matter of birth, not choice, and all our various attractions will remain as they were regardless of whether the pool of state sanctioned marriage licenses expands to accept same-sex couples.