Sentence examples for on empirical grounds from inspiring English sources

Unless it can be demonstrated that the eight properties picked out by these definitions are highly correlated with one another, something which they doubt on empirical grounds, the term 'innate' is confusing and unhelpful.

So even if two theories are empirically equivalent at a given time this is no guarantee that they will remain so, and thus there is no foundation for a general pessimism about our ability to distinguish theories that are empirically equivalent to each other on empirical grounds.

The process will often be comparative: theory choice in moral psychology, like other theory choice, involves tradeoffs, and while an empirically undersupported approach may not be decisively eliminated from contention on empirical grounds alone, it may come to be seen as less attractive than theoretical options with firmer empirical foundations.

Making an even more relativistic claim, White argued that the same set of events could be worked up into different histories, each containing nothing but true statements and thus not vulnerable on empirical grounds but informed by different tropes and "emplotted" in a variety of ways.

This account is subject to dispute on empirical grounds.

But it seems this can be shown to be problematic on empirical grounds.

Properties related to the glass transition of metallic melts are reviewed both on empirical ground and using the statistics of local minima in the potential energy landscape of the material.

On the view we are considering, we know that if someone is a bachelor, he is unmarried on similar empirical grounds because that conditional should really be understood as a counterfactual conditional of the form: if X were the case, then Y would be the case.

Some adherents of CTM do deny that the brain runs an associative network (see, e.g., Gallistel and King 2009, who appear to deny that there is any scientific level of explanation that association is intimately involved in), but they do so on separate empirical grounds and not because of any logical inconsistency with an associative brain implementing a classical mind.

Nevertheless, since we cannot formulate it in terms of traditional classification problems without a loss of generality, the overall performance of a combined forecast model can only be established on purely empirical grounds.In contrast to linear methods, our procedure does not average the local expected rates of different models.

We argue that this latter effort fails in all respects it does not account for the properties of the language faculty, failing to rule out languages that are known to be "impossible" on other, empirical grounds, including brain imaging; and does not even make successful empirical predictions about diachronic language change.