How to Use empiricism in a Sentence

empiricism

noun
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  • Meanwhile, over at the EPA, the war against empiricism continues apace.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 July 2017
  • But empiricism and artistry frequently start from the same place - an irrepressible urge to know more about the world.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2016
  • The same empiricism led him to keep urging Virgin Galactic engineers not to be spooked by the past.
    — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Together, these ideas gave the new school of thought its name, logical empiricism.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • But even the implications Hilditch draws from his armchair empiricism are faulty.
    — Aaron Rhodes, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Isaac then all but mocks my belief in a rediscovery of moderation and empiricism to help us.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Sep. 2017
  • For a decade or so, their philosophical approach, logical empiricism, became the most fashionable in the world.
    — David Edmonds, WSJ, 14 May 2021
  • The election was a victory for gut instinct over empiricism, for cynicism over reason.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2016
  • The Times, in Naureckas’s portrayal, found Silver’s empiricism a threat to its own -- and journalism’s own -- solipsistic worldview.
    — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2013
  • The arrival of Nate Silver in 2008, alongside other rigorous statisticians critiquing the media’s use of polls, was a refreshing burst of empiricism.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2020
  • That means, in its modern manifestation, that the tribe comes before the country as a whole, before any neutral institutions that get in its way, before reason and empiricism, and before the rule of law.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The byproducts—the tribalism, the chilling demands for conformity of thought, the questioning of science and empiricism—can sometimes be alarming, even frightening.
    — Richard Aldous, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The empiricism that matters to Djokovic is his own experience, and his experience consists largely of winning.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Like the principle of liberty, the principle of empiricism moves us always towards a better, freer, healthier world.
    — David Dobbs, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2013
  • This view has influenced thinking in Christian and Persian philosophies, British empiricism and Marxist doctrine.
    — György Buzsáki, Scientific American, 14 May 2022
  • Other researchers counter that Slobodchikoff’s techniques are sound and widely used and that reluctance to embrace his research owes more to prejudice than empiricism.
    — Ferris Jabr, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Homeopathy smacked down for misleading claims When magic and empiricism meet in Uganda children get their teeth removed with a sharpened bicycle spoke ?
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2013
  • The whole tradition of British empiricism that followed on from Locke is defined by this prioritization of the physical over the spiritual and the transcendent.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 23 Apr. 2021
  • There are competing accounts of the authorship of this affirmation of the importance of empiricism to the intellectual method.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The exhibition begins in 1780, a bit of an arbitrary date, because the Enlightenment attends to religion, a staple of art, but also, and this is new, to nature, science, and empiricism.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The variation in the scaling of each section implies a sense of discontinuity, but also the same spirit of cartographic empiricism that speaks through the wider statistical maps of the 19th century.
    — Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Milton Friedman, whose empiricism led him to embrace free-market public policy, was the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 8 May 2021
  • Even in his own day, Hobsbawm could sense lurking objections to the basic ideas of the Enlightenment – the great outpouring of reason, empiricism, and egalitarian values that kicked off in the late 17th century.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Feb. 2021
  • And both were involved with the Royal Society in London, in the flourishing of empiricism and natural philosophy that took place across the country and in the trying of exotic and newly available food and drink—tea, coffee, chocolate, pineapples.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The rise of supply-side economics on the right is perhaps the first major example of the modern Republican Party’s abandonment of policy expertise and empiricism.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 18 Oct. 2017
  • This sort of casual empiricism—which has crept back into mainstream media and other institutions—was a competitive sport among my family and friends.
    — Roland Fryer, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • That’s because Facebook operates under a veneer of empiricism.
    — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 11 May 2016
  • Rejecting evidence and empiricism is a step toward despotism.
    — Jonathan Foley, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
  • The witch rejects empiricism; by embracing witchcraft, the young woman is rehabilitating an old, stigmatized identity and finding within it a source of strength.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 21 July 2017
  • Read her full interview here: on hard-nosed empiricism and optimizing interventions.
    — Aline Holzwarth, Forbes, 21 June 2022

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