Sentence examples for empirical origin from inspiring English sources

The doctrine that at least certain ideas (e.g., those of God, infinity, substance) must be innate, because no satisfactory empirical origin of them could be conceived, flourished in the 17th century and found in René Descartes its most prominent exponent.

Normatively, he sees attempts to violate this interdependence as inevitably leading to intellectual malfunction — e.g., as has already been mentioned, he thinks that metaphysicians' attempts to cut entirely free from the empirical origin of our concepts lead to meaninglessness.

Since especially the Kantian understanding of the transcendental has been influential for modern minds, it must be emphasized at the outset that the medieval understanding of transcendental is not opposed to the empirical, but to the categorical; in fact, all medieval authors acknowledge an empirical origin of the transcendental notions.

He puts them in the category of "natural predispositions of the mind … for being affected by concepts of duty" and says that "[c]onsciousness of them is not of empirical origin; it can, instead, only follow from consciousness of a moral law, as the effect this has on the mind" (MM 6 399).

The principles of mechanics certainly have, according to Poincaré, an empirical origin, but they nonetheless surpass the bounds of strict empiricism since the experience that leads us to an experimental result rests on the repetition of a phenomenon and therefore requires physical or empirical induction (Poincaré 1902: 26; 1913b: 30).

This research set out to explore the validity and potential utility of an 11-item measurement instrument, whose theoretical and empirical origins were in an Experience Based Learning model of how medical students learn in communities of practice (COPs), and whose contextual origins were in a community-oriented, horizontally integrated, undergraduate medical programme.

The categories must be "schematized" because their non-empirical origin in pure understanding prevents their having the sort of sensible content that would connect them immediately to the objects of experience; transcendental schemata are mediating representations that are meant to establish the connection between pure concepts and appearances in a rule-governed way.

So the idea popular among Newton's supporters like Locke that the representation of space is empirical in origin is perfectly compatible with relationalism.

Prima facie, it is difficult to see why, if our representation of space is indeed empirical in origin, we should lack the ability to conceive of space's absence.

It is this cataloging, empirical impulse, whose origin point is the list of riverboats in "Life on the Mississippi," that not only separates Ross's New Yorker from other magazines but sets Thurber's humor apart from, say, Beerbohm's.

Equations describing the growth characteristics of specific trees are in general empirical in their origins, such as the logistic equation or its generalization, the Richards equation [27].