Since it is empirically true that some people react to injury with reactive attitudes that are not forms of anger at all, it should be borne in mind that not all forgiveness, even as a process of overcoming negative reactive attitudes, involves angry reactive attitudes.
"In the public arena, we ought to recognize that it is empirically true that African-American men are more likely, by virtually every measure, to be arrested, sentenced, executed, or murdered than their white peers.
For this anxiety, which is as physically real as it is empirically true (that most people are not in a position to retire with any degree of financial security), demands greater clarity and understanding.
I don't think it's empirically true.
"Whether or not it's empirically true, the U.S. brand of medicine is still perceived as being the most advanced health system for treating very complicated diseases and when life is at stake," says Paul Mango, co-author of the McKinsey report.
To say what is empirically true, that it was West's absence of success that exposed him involuntarily to the Los Angeles culture that served as the subject matter of, in my opinion, his greatest work, "The Day of the Locust," is uncomfortably Panglossian.
The second most frequent explanation offered was that a majority of Americans of earlier generations were sincere Christians, which, as Smith points out, is empirically true.
And they do this without actually worrying about whether that presumption is empirically true in the specific case, either for this state or this moment in time.
This is empirically true — just look at Wayfair, Braintree, Shutterstock, SurveyMonkey, Plenty of Fish, Shopify, Lynda, GitHub, Atlassian, MailChimp, Epic, Campaign Monitor, Minecraft, LootCrate, Unity, CarGurus and SimpliSafe to name just a few.
Emotional and social engagement histories are undoubtedly important variables of the 'motivation for sharing' construct, and our study has shown that this is empirically true for the 'give-and-take' type of sharing in chimpanzees, as measured here.
Whether or not LOTH actually turns out to be empirically true in the details or in its entire vision of rational thinking, this picture of a syntactic engine driving a semantic one can at least be taken to be an important philosophical demonstration of how Descartes' challenge can be met (cf. Rey 1997: chp.8).
