Sentence examples for strictly empirical from inspiring English sources

Most of the issues debated in 20th-century criticism appear to be strictly empirical, even technical, in nature.

If both parents exhibit completely normal karyotypes, the recurrence risks cited are low and are strictly empirical.

These studies have encompassed everything from the strictly empirical to the QSAR approach and everything in between.

Science is often portrayed as a strictly empirical exercise, but the work of historians and philosophers of science has prominently identified conceptual problems as an integral part of past and present scientific practice (Stewart and Rudolph 2001).

That aside, I think one of the best aspects of philosophy is the ability to run thought experiments that are outside the strictly empirical realm of science to explore logical space, if you will.

The temporal properties of BOLD signals from the SC and LGN of GE rats were quantified using strictly empirical measures by determining the time to reach 50% of PEAK after onset of stimulation (t50) and the time to return to 50% of PEAK (t150).

Nonetheless, as I and many others have argued [ 1, 32- 40], sequence similarity is strictly an empirical observation; homology, on the other hand, is a hypothesis intended to explain the similarity.

It could have been because he had fallen out with Plato (a tendency towards empiricism, perhaps, which irked the strictly anti-empirical stance of his ageing mentor).

Finally, strictly speaking, our empirical tests are tests of correlations between family income and individual BMI.

From this perspective, the great error of both Aristotelian and the new mechanical natural philosophy was its failure to adhere strictly enough to empirical facts.

Working from this assumption, it is a strictly pragmatic and empirical question what configuration of public laws, institutions, and norms is most likely to minimize the danger of corruption, and enhance the civic virtue of public officials.