empirical

• When his advisors suggested he find something a bit more "empirical," he finally hit on lucid dreaming. —  Omni: September 1994
• Today, every eugenicist I know of is tied to what I can only describe as the empirical racialist right for lack of a better term. —  The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
• But many of the science-inclined have apparently concluded that only the empirical is the domain of rationality, just as many on the evangelical side have decided that their morality is the only domain of morality and ethics. —  Phronesisaical
• Modern teachers may do better, for in the light of present knowledge reliance on the faculty of vocal imitation can be shown to be in strict accord with sound scientific principles Part III THE BASIS OF A REAL SCIENCE OF VOICE CHAPTER I THE MEANS OF EMPIRICAL OBSERVATION OF THE VOICE To all knowledge obtained through the observation of facts and phenomena, the term empirical is properly applied. —  The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern
• Some of these laws are empirical, as that 'Most metals are solid at ordinary temperatures': at present no reason can be given for this; nor do we know why most cases of plague are fatal. —  Logic Deductive and Inductive

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