8 sentences with 'empirical'
Example sentences and phrases with the word empirical and other words derived from it.
• « As noted above, the accounts in the Hebrew Bible cannot generally be verified by empirical evidence. »
• « The ancient Greeks invented a form of philosophy and learning related to empirical observation and rationality; »
• « However, it would take until the development of modern chemistry for that theory to be proven correct through empirical research. »
• « For the first time, a culture emerged in Europe in which empirical observations provided the basis for logical conjectures about how natural laws worked, opening up the possibility of a wide range of scientific discoveries. »
• « There was a marked absence of empirical investigation: observing, from a neutral and objective point of view, natural phenomena and using these observations as the basis for informed experimentation into their causes and workings. »
• « Medieval and early Europeans had never developed an empirical scientific culture because the aim of science had never been to discover truth, but to describe it. »
• « Just as the Scientific Revolution had abandoned real empirical methods altogether in favour of simply endorsing old stereotypes about women's inferiority, the vast majority of male philosophers either ignored women in their writings altogether or argued that women should be kept in a subordinate social position. »
• « Unfortunately, as academic disciplines proliferated and scholars proposed theories to explain politics, social organisation and economics, it was often difficult to distinguish between sound theories based on empirical evidence and pseudo-scientific or pseudo-scholarly theories (such as those surrounding racial hierarchy) based instead on ideology and sloppy methodology. »