Sentence examples for empirical premises from inspiring English sources

But it is surprising that this can be proved without empirical premises.

Thus, says Norton, we never go beyond the empirical premises in a way to which any empiricist would object.

However, the prohibitive arguments advanced in this article do not require empirical premises as strong as this…they rely instead on the notion of equality" (1990, 313).

Worries about underdetermination and inference to the best explanation are generally conceptual in nature, but the so-called pessimistic induction (also called the 'pessimistic meta-induction', because it concerns the "ground level" inductive inferences that produce scientific theories and laws) is intended as an argument from empirical premises.

These arguments often rest upon four empirical premises.

Unless their empirical premises run counter to the laws of physics, they invoke real possibilities.

There are two main ways the empirical premise can be justified.

The Empirical Premise is just an existential generalization of this conclusion.

The central, and empirical, premise in this argument is that children do not spontaneously and naturally grow into adults.

More promising were neoplatonic aitiological arguments (Boethius Consolatio philosophiae III 10; Anselm, Monologion 1 3), which combine an empirical premise with a participation premise.

But since the justification of that conjunction rests in part on an empirical premise, its justification is empirical, not a priori.