Sentence examples for empirical truths from inspiring English sources

Wilde is clearly not alluding to the logical truth of propositions or the empirical truths of natural science.

Namely, that truth does not consist of the empirical truths of natural science or the propositional truths of logic.

They realize that the president is someone who is totally driven by unquestioned belief, is disdainful of empirical truths, and most important, lacks the native intelligence to engage in unscripted give-and-take without embarrassing himself.

"Certainly with this upcoming election, the truth is this: if you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in modern science or empirical truths – and you will be on the wrong side of history.

There are empirical truths that we can say about a movie: it was shot in black and white or color, on film or digital, in widescreen or not, directed by this or that filmmaker.

Frege argues that mathematical truths are not empirical truths and that numbers cannot be properties of aggregates of objects.

There's some empirical truth to these assumptions.

"With art, it's not an empirical truth," Helberg nods.

In the later Wittgenstein, however, the entire distinction between logical and empirical truth becomes unclear.

Disregard is too passive and benign a description for this malignant, aggressive antipathy toward empirical truth-seeking.

As much as we like to debunk the conventional wisdom at FiveThirtyEight, this hypothesis has the ring of empirical truth to it.