Sentence examples for empirical thinking from inspiring English sources

How to reconcile theoretical and empirical thinking is a crucial methodological challenge for scientific innovation and a real imperative to influence societal processes of change and political decisions in Europe.

Imagine a highly intelligent and intuitive woman, equipped with an innate empirical thinking.

But science and empirical thinking are as indelibly a part of Western culture as the arts and humanities.

"The 'deck of cards' was an inspiration in that it represents the idea of luck, or the opposite of empirical thinking," Kuo elaborates further.

That kind of doublespeak is what happens when tribal values, arrogantly but mistakenly framed as "progressive" and "liberal", are substituted for reasoned, empirical based thinking.

Built environment decision-makers value empirical evidence, but also emphasise the legitimacy and relevance of less empirical ways of thinking through narratives that associate their work to art and philosophy.

The appeal to background evidence to justify our testimonial practice is at variance with the accusation that an empirical or a posteriori approach demands that "we should remain neutral or skeptical of information unless we have empirical grounds for thinking it trustworthy…" (Burge 1993, 473).

A new way of thinking was born, transactional and everyday, and yet with momentous philosophical implications.Mr Pye advances on several fronts at once, following the overlapping currents of customary, religious and empirical ways of thinking.

In this commentary I reflect on the possibility of solidarity in diversity, both in conceptual and empirical terms, by thinking with and beyond Zapata-Barrero and Modood (Modood, 2017; Zapata-Barrero, 2017).

His method of observation opened the door to breakthroughs beyond the "verities" of the classics, though he was careful not to play up this fact because most of his intellectual colleagues primarily sought the truth in the texts, thinking empirical facts were distractions from the essential Natural-patterning (tianli) that was reflected most adequately in the canonical texts.

However, this argument is based on a large assumption about the likely effects of having exclusionary rules and not having them, and there is no strong empirical basis for thinking that the consequences are or will be as alleged (Goldman 1999: 292 295; Laudan 2006: 120062006