The focus is on specifying the claim of epistemic advantage with sufficient precision that it could be empirically testable, or at least open up areas in which plausible empirical hypotheses of epistemic advantage could be tested.
It is empirically testable and strategically relevant.
But Coase was careful never to frame his theory to make it empirically testable.
Can evolutionary theory offer any well-grounded, empirically testable hypothesis for my phobia?
But sometimes these folk beliefs, or intuitions, are elaborated into scientifically testable schemes – even empirically testable ones.
Empirically testable condition selected 6 of 581 tennis racket patents granted between 1971 and 2001.
Without mincing words, Chomsky derided their work as empty posturing, juxtaposing their style and methods against the "empirically testable propositions" of more "serious" fields like the hard sciences.
Nevertheless, the requirement that hypotheses and theories be empirically testable, though it became more flexible and tolerant, could not be relinquished.
Even something as speculative as string theory is based not on faith but on hope: the hope that it will some day be empirically testable.
And while mathematics is empirically testable at such rudimentary levels, it stops being so in its purest forms, like analysis and number theory.
One of the aims of the project is to produce a new theory of tonality and modality that is both more empirically testable and less specific to so-called common-practice music than existing theories.
