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Example sentences for: empiricism

How can you use “empiricism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

An FBI spokeswoman quoted in the New York Times said the agency will first establish whether there is any semen on the dress (easy to do) and then spend "several weeks" finding out whose semen it is (somewhat more difficult but, since the mid-1990s, not all that hard, according to the Washington Post ). Assuming the genetic markers point to Clinton (and that Clinton doesn't resort to claiming a heretofore undisclosed identical twin), scientific empiricism, in collaboration with the more untidy empiricism of daily journalism, will have triumphed.
A change in abstraction from "empiricism or trial-and-error tinkering" to theory and the codification of theoretical knowledge "for directing innovation and the formulation of policy."
His best example of empiricism's limits was the (apocryphal) story of how, at the dawn of the Enlightenment, a scientist tried to establish the existence of the human soul "not by speculating on the Vital Principle and the Intrinsic Substance of the Soul, as described in Aristotle and the Church Fathers, but by weighing a condemned criminal before and after execution."
But that's a signal for further empiricism, not a theoretical point that there is no way to get better evidence or improve certainty that one is "right."