Sentence examples for empirical virtue from inspiring English sources

But one might nevertheless argue that the empirical faithfulness of the relative-state formulation of pure wave mechanics represent a nontrivial empirical virtue.

Ms. Andrieu, the cookbook author, said that despite Ms. Child's clichéd recipes, her style could be defined as a "combination of scientific and empirical virtues" that helped explain why Americans wrote better cookbooks than the French.

The natural philosopher must, therefore, test the various hypotheses by their consequences, and consider empirical virtues such as simplicity and scope (Disc. VI; Princ. IV.201 6).

The argument for one definition over the other will have to be made in terms of simplicity, elegance, or some other non-empirical virtue of theoretical constructs.

This is especially true for philosophers engaged in recent discussions of situationism and the empirical reality of virtue and vice (Harman 1999, 2000; Doris 1998, 2002; Snow 2010; Miller 2014).

Exactly how the intellect may detach from the interests of the individual will the empirical character— by virtue of the intelligible character is difficult, perhaps impossible, to say, though Schopenhauer is clear that the operation of transcendental freedom should not be understood as causal since causality applies only within the empirical realm.

Empirical accounts of moral virtue in the period are distinguished, both by grounding moral virtue on an empirical study of human nature, and by grounding cognition of moral duties and moral motivation in human sensibility, rather than in reason.

So the Biological Species Concept has the virtue of empirical sensitivity.

Political philosophy is also to be distinguished within practical philosophy from both empirical elements and from virtue proper.

If this diagnosis is correct, one need not deny P9 or P10 to block the intuitively false consequence that s could acquire knowledge of the empirical proposition Q9 in virtue of only non-empirical knowledge.

The philosophical situationists John Doris (1998, 2002) and Gilbert Harman (1999, 2000a, 2003) were the first to mount an empirical challenge to the virtue ethical conception of character, arguing on the basis of evidence from personality and social psychology that the structure of most people's dispositions does not match the structure of virtues (or vices).