The empirical reality is, when I'm in my neighbourhood I may as well be in Geneva.
The Higgs boson had no foundation in empirical reality when it was predicted in 1964.
What Adorno identified as the erasure of the "borderline between culture and empirical reality" is endemic on social media.
In typically Naumanesque style the work's artificial, mechanical nature is fully exposed, creating tension between otherworldly fantasy and empirical reality.
When it comes to policy making, it pays to recall Gradgrind: the first requirement is a strong grounding in empirical reality.
Surikov, who viewed history as deeply tragic, knew well the difference between the actual event and its emotional or empirical reality.
His passion for "looking for theoretical understandings of empirical reality" may help explain his long life, as well as his lengthy list of achievements.
We are fast approaching the day in August when all the speculation around the possible value of the Cosmos brand meets the empirical reality of a team trying to build a present-day following from a field at Hofstra University.
Tomorrow, April 22nd — Earth Day — scientists, people who love science, and citizens concerned that government policies are increasingly detached from empirical reality will march in Washington, D.C., and nearly five hundred other cities around the world.
Essentially, they are betting that, for a significant portion of the country, empirical reality doesn't matter; they are also signalling that empirical reasoning won't be the basis of their public policy.
Scientific observations, while commonly thought to be based on empirical reality, he writes, are actually "filtered through layers of subjective impression"; scientific "facts" about nature are not "pre-existing truths" but "human constructs".
