Sentence examples for empirical questions from inspiring English sources

The first concerned empirical questions — for example, whether Bush administration officials' allegations about Saddam Hussein's nuclear capability were true.

I think you say this because you endorse a principle that the key distinction is between empirical questions that are answerable and non-empirical ones that aren't.

Called Sinatra, it uses the singer Frank Sinatra as a matrix for exploring a broad range of theoretical and empirical questions.

Those are empirical questions that non-experts cannot answer: they are the business of military personnel and analysts who understand these matters.

If, however, you want to be a utilitarian you have to distinguish empirical questions from questions of obligation and value – particularly when it comes to making decisions about torture and other bads.

And that raises a host of thorny empirical questions: What distinguishes a real sangoma from a fly-by-night, when many traditional healers claim to be called to their profession by ancestors, not trained at schools?

Milton Friedman — he was a macro theorist, but he was less driven by theory and by the desire to construct a single overarching theory than by attempting to answer empirical questions.

Matters of possession become almost existential, rather than empirical, questions, and, in the end, referees' snap decisions in real time seem no less correct than the ones they make after deliberation.

There are, however, a lot of largely empirical questions whose answers need not, in principle, be associated with one's position on this left-right divide but, in practice, are.

"Issues are often more complex than judges and lawyers think, and their legal training gives them no comparative advantage in resolving the complex value judgments and empirical questions that go into deciding questions such as whether same-sex marriage should be legal," the brief said.

These are empirical questions.