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In contrast with those logical positivists who thought that statements of value merely express attitudes, pro or con, to objects, persons, or situations, but are neither true nor false, Lewis (1946, 396 98) thought that statements of value were as true or false as other empirical statements, and every bit as empirically verifiable or falsifiable, confirmable or disconfirmable.
That's not my subjective opinion; that's an empirically verifiable fact.
The concrete benefits of these programs, which are empirically verifiable, should trump abstract theoretical objections.
Though the voice of God may not be empirically verifiable, the fruit of the communication often is.
Such questions are philosophical and lie beyond the scope of the social sciences, which are restricted to empirically verifiable generalizations.
America had officially become "a suburban nation" -- which sounded to me like one of those utterly weightless demographic truths, empirically verifiable, but without any real echo in experience.
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Yet the positivist notion that claims stand or fall in light of the evidence is untenable; furthermore, the legacy of positivism entails the quieting of empirically non-verifiable (or at least non-falsifiable) considerations like moral claims and judgments.
For health services researchers interested in process evaluation NPT provides a verifiable and empirically grounded model of the operation of factors that promote and inhibit the routine incorporation of interventions in everyday practice.
The decision to use NPT was deliberate as it offered a verifiable and empirically grounded model of the factors promoting or inhibiting the routine incorporation and embedding of the RESTORE intervention into participants' lives and a theoretical framework for understanding and evaluating implementation as a process.
In a scientific point of view, SE is not a moralist's or utopian socialist's entity, but it seeks social impact and if it has such an intention, it should be empirically and socially tangible and observable, that is, each SE component and claim must be verifiable; otherwise it is cognitively meaningless.
It is empirically unprovable.
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