Sentence examples for empirical source from inspiring English sources

He praised the invigorating influence of "some underlying empirical, worldly motif" in mathematics, warning that "at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much abstract inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration".

Since testimony is an empirical source, this is another example of how a priori justification can be defeated by empirical evidence.

We constrained the fault length and width to be 30 km, according to the empirical source scaling relationship between earthquake magnitude and rupture width (Wells and Coppersmith 1994).

This extension is based on an empirical source of IG energy, which is defined along shorelines from the significant wave height and a mean period.

A large part of that difference is believed to be caused by the inherent uncertainty when using predictive empirical source noise models.

Stated choice (SC) experiments are increasingly adopted as the empirical source of information on how individuals respond to current and potential travel contexts.

The impulse to try more imaginative moves is understandable, but Mr. Stankard is at his best when he stays closest to his empirical sources of inspiration.

Our empirical sources focus on sheep and reindeer pasture communities in the county of Nordland, Norway (Figure 1). Figure 1 Salten region in Nordland, northern Norway (Source: Marc Girard, Université de Montréal).

The scientific community has not asked for this wealth of data it is now confronted with and is hardly prepared to pose the scientific questions of what to learn from these new empirical sources - beyond testing some already established paradigms.

Together, these and other related studies in other visual qualia [30], [50] suggest that early, non-linear interaction between opponent channels evolved not to encode the physical attributes of stimuli per se, but to encode the statistical relationship between stimuli and their past empirical sources, manifesting itself in this case as colour brightness.

Other empirical sources include population health data and patient data held in registries.