Sentence examples for empirically problematic from inspiring English sources

Marcel also emphasizes the mysterious (as distinguished from the empirically problematic) character of love, evil, hope, freedom, and, above all, being.

I suggest that empirically straightforward and democratically legitimate exchange values may be a more powerful input to public policy decisions than theoretically correct but empirically problematic estimates of mean willingness to pay.

At the same time, paying heed to the distinction makes the concept of capacity both philosophically problematic and empirically elusive.

At the present time, items response data are not available for the AFQT for NLSY79 respondents, so it is not possible to assess empirically how problematic errors-in-variables bias might be in the specific applications listed above.

It is difficult to separate the impact of any specific policy from the broad range of policy instruments that potentially influence fertility and it is problematic to empirically establish whether a specific policy was successful due to the temporal lag between policy initiation and take-up.

Until these quality assessment measures can be found for empirical ethics, it is likewise problematic to speak of "empirically supported ethical decisions" if there is no differentiation between various levels of quality of empirical information and hence no transparent discussion of the internal and external quality of the empirical information.

Resource-based, functioning-based, or primary-goods-based currencies of welfare, by contrast, may allow empirically meaningful and less morally problematic interpersonal comparisons.

First, different stipulations about measurement can lead to apparently different empirical generalizations that nevertheless are empirically indistinguishable although just what "empirically indistinguishable" can consistently mean for Reichenbach is problematic for reasons to be noted.

These problematic areas need to be empirically investigated, but meanwhile a framework is needed to guide reviewers through this uncertain and evolving area.

He considers these problematic because they give rise to an empirically given, yet self-contradictory concept (Weiss 1928: 37).

Treating this topic as a problematic to be conceptually explored rather than empirically demonstrated, this article focuses on the molecularisation of tertiary prevention, especially the growing use of molecular biomarkers to monitor disease recurrence.