nonempirical

It's hard to tell whether the author of the post at Prosthesis thinks "nonempirical" factors in theory selection are bad for science, but it's clear that he/she thinks they are unavoidable.

Archive 2004-11-01 Chris 2004

It's hard to tell whether the author of the post at Prosthesis thinks "nonempirical" factors in theory selection are bad for science, but it's clear that he/she thinks they are unavoidable.

Philosophers' Carnival IV: Attack of the Epistemologists Chris 2004

Their culture, which dismisses science, is often nonempirical.

BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » The Sessile Eye of the Isopod: Getting Ideas 2010

He recalls that in all interventions he took the radical positivist line that science is the basis of knowledge; that it is empirical; and that nonempirical enterprises are either logic or nonsense (p. 68).

Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009

The present bibliography does not include all of the approximately 3,900 diffusion publications 75 percent empirical and 25 percent nonempirical currently available, as such a complete bibliography would itself constitute a very large book.

Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995

To say that it can't is just baseless nonempirical assertion.

Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It? 2006

Its nonempirical roots in Kant notwithstanding, it is now the major method used by experimental cognitive scientists.

Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self Brook, Andrew 2008

Their culture, which dismisses science, is often nonempirical.

John Brockman: The Edge Annual Question 2008

Again, that's all nonempirical, so take it all accordingly.

Gender differences: New findings, new paper 2008

At the time, one of the biggest income streams in the mental health professions was coming from “recovered memory therapy,” which rested on the nonempirical notion that in a proper therapeutic environment, a person could recover memories of traumatic events that occurred even during early infancy.

Parenting by the Book John Rosemond 2007