In the latter group, descriptors are created through an empirically verifiable procedure and are based on observable learner behavior, including 'the data-based or data-driven approach,'empiricallyly derived, binary-choice, boundary definition scales,'scalingng descriptors' (Fulcher 2003, p. 92).
Two very general forms of reductionism have been held by philosophers in the 20th century: (1) Logical positivists have maintained that expressions referring to existing things or to states of affairs are definable in terms of directly observable objects, or sense-data, and, hence, that any statement of fact is equivalent to some set of empirically verifiable statements.
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.
Empirically verifiable science proves that cannabis is non-toxic and that prohibition was originally motivated by corruption, greed and prejudice.
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.
Even those like Chomsky who are on the proto-anarchist left of this tradition like to maintain that their theories are empirically verifiable and rooted in reality.
This empirical aspect, which corresponds to the modern conception of science, can be applied only if it functions on the basis of objectifiable (empirically verifiable) entities.
"It cannot achieve empirically verifiable surprises that force scientists to make substantial revisions in their basic description of reality," he writes.
