Sentence examples for empirical origin of 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).

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.

Empirical research exploring the origin of ILT argues for the significance of childhood and the interaction with the parents, our first leaders, as an important source for the development of individuals' ILT (Keller 2000, 2003; Popper and Amit 2009; Popper et al. 2000).

It would be highly instructive to check whether distributions of substitution rates observed in [ 8] can provide additional insights into the microscopic origin of empirical fits used in this work.

Figure 17 shows the analytical and empirical cumulative distribution of the origin of CAMs relative to the receiver.

Wieseltier is not content with misrepresenting Dennett's plea that we drop protectionism for an open-minded empirical inquiry into the nature and origin of religious belief.

These results are consistent with the empirical evidence on how the national origin of an individual's education matters for its return in the host labor market (Friedberg, 2000; Bratsberg and Terrell, 2002; Sweetman, 2004; Chiswick and Miller, 2010).

For carbon penta- and hexa-interstitials, the GS structures predicted by DFT and empirical potential differ, and the plausible origin of this discrepancy is discussed from the chemical bonding point of view.