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It must, therefore, be some planet outside the orbit of Uranus, and in all probability, according to Bode's empirical law, at nearly double the distance from the sun that Uranus is.
Indeed, by a sort of instinct, society has constructed its institutions upon empirical observations and assumptions agreeing with this principle.
It is, then, an insufficient explanation of Courage to make it rest only on utility, to give it an empirical and not a transcendental character.
Nevertheless, the empirical tendency of his nation has a certain power over him; he holds fast to the position that all ideas ultimately spring from experience.
On the first is based the distinction between the rational and the empirical or historical method of treatment.
The material of intuition and thought is given to the soul, received by it; it arises through the action of objects upon the senses, and is always empirical.
Now all our representations are either pure or empirical in their origin, and either intuitive or conceptual in character.
The former relate to objects of (pure or of empirical) intuition, the latter to the existence of these objects (in relation to one another or to the understanding).
In the one case, they are referred to his empirical character, in the other, to his intelligible character.
Then the Science of Knowledge brought into prominence the positive, boldly conquering side, the investigation of the conditions of empirical knowledge.
I have hitherto avoided mentioning that dangerous and empirical morality, which cures one vice by means of another.
Merely as a reporter of certain empirical aspects of the actual, Hegel, then, is great and true.
"The empirical and philosophical arguments point to the same general conclusion, that reality is the process of the development of Mind."
The doctoring of the time was also, of course, largely empirical, but assuredly hardly more so than it was a century or so ago, and distinctly more rational than it became in the Middle Ages.
When the empirical aspect of diversity attracts their notice, they affirm it and yet declare that it is all Brahman.
Let me ask you, therefore, to follow at first the same empirical road which the governments have followed, and to take conditions as they are, and not as we may wish they should be.
His prior efficiency was based on empirical knowledge rather than on judgment or ability to analyze problems.
The empirical law is established that the sum of the three angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles.
They may be, and often are, the generalizations of the empirical sciences, and must then possess the same degree of uncertainty that these generalizations possess.
The delineator of nature must resist the tendency toward endless division, in order to avoid the dangers presented by the very abundance of our empirical knowledge.
I was loudly called for at the end of the fourth act, but could not or would not make so absurd and empirical a sacrifice of the dignity of my poor art.
At the first glance it might appear as if just here a large amount of literature exists; moreover, a literature rich in excellent investigations and ample empirical material.
To all these subjects, including religion, there have been applied empirical methods which have the closest analogy with those which have reigned in the physical sciences.
It is clear, however, that the sciences of mind, of morals and of religion have now become empirical sciences.
Kant parted company with the empirical philosophy which had held that all knowledge arises from without, comes from experienced sensations, is essentially perception.
The point that is relevant for this book then is: that the definition is so good, that it in practice substitutes for many everyday empirical problems.
One useful empirical answer is optimal control, with the example of a rocket launched to the moon, where there is continuous adjustment to observed error (?falsification?).
One of the conclusions to which such an inquiry leads, is, that in each branch of instruction we should proceed from the empirical to the rational.
Just consider how disastrous would be the result if this empirical method were pursued from the beginning.
Mr Spencer does not distinguish between the empirical stage of the cultivation of a branch of knowledge, and the scientific stage.
When we wish to be specially critical we pass a little way beyond an empirical judgment by pleasure or annoyance and take into account the degree of harmony between matter and manner.
The revision would consist chiefly in this, that empirical verification, utility, and survival would take the place of dialectical irony as the force governing the evolution.
This method of Deduction without any empirical verification, is called by Mill the Geometrical; and, plainly, it can be trustworthy only where there is no actual conflict of forces to be considered.
If no exceptions are found, we have an empirical law of considerable probability within the range of our exploration.
The Empirical Origins of Gandhi's Method Gandhi's autobiography brings out the origins of many of his ideas.
I have said that we have an empirical political economy and social science to fit the distortions of our society.
The teaching of singing, as an art, then rested altogether on an empirical basis, and the acoustics of singing had not received the attention of scientists.
That this is not an empirical statement but a scientific fact, a few simple experiments will demonstrate.
Hitherto medicinal herbs have come down to us from early times as possessing only a traditional value, and as exercising merely empirical effects.
An empirical community cannot be ruled by a traditional written word, but only by persons; for the written law will always separate and split.
His method was empirical, and the laws which he established were generally the result of repeated experiment.
In the third place the complex vision, working with all its attributes together, provides us with the recognition of a personal or empirical self which is the real "I am I" of our integral soul.
At any rate, all they know of the other two is of an empirical character and what they have picked up incidentally.
These means are purely empirical makeshifts, and as a rule they are not sanctioned by the consistent advocates of scientific instruction.
The remaining topics of instruction, mechanical and empirical, may with equal justice be submitted to a similar examination.
To a consideration of this record of the empirical knowledge of the voice the following chapter is devoted.
The vocal teacher's empirical understanding of the voice conflicts at every step with his supposedly scientific knowledge.
On the contrary, the master's empirical insight into the vocal operations of the pupil would probably not be advanced by an understanding of the psychological process.
Only two ways of applying empirical knowledge of the voice are known to the modern vocal teacher.
Separately considered, neither the scientific nor the empirical study of the voice is alone sufficient to inform us of the exact nature of the correct vocal action.
Yet the fact remains, as a matter of empirical observation, that there is a marked difference between the natural voice and the correctly trained voice.
This lack of understanding of the basis of the empirical method, on the part of its most intelligent and successful exponents, was the first cause of the weakness of this method against attack.
Another source of weakness in the hold of empirical systems on the vocal profession was seen in the generally high intellectual standard of the more prominent teachers.
Through elimination and individual adaptation, through assuming the personal imprint, it degenerated into a purely empirical formula.
In locating the natural faults of production the teacher will also find his empirical knowledge of the voice a most valuable possession.
This empirical knowledge, as it is generally called, indicates a state of unnecessary throat tension as the cause, or at any rate the accompaniment, of every faulty tone.
A striking feature of all the discussions concerning the use or avoidance of nasal resonance is the fact that vocal theorists base their opinions entirely on empirical observations.
True, this acquaintance with the voice is purely empirical; as has just been remarked, no mechanical analysis of this empirical knowledge has ever been successfully made.
A third class of materials is found in the attempts to interpret the empirical doctrines in the light of the scientific analysis of the vocal action.
A very different type of method is taught by many teachers who pay special attention to the empirical topics of instruction.
Teachers of this class touch, more or less, on every topic of instruction, mechanical, empirical, and interpretive.
All the materials of instruction, mechanical and empirical, are utilized for the sole purpose of enabling the student to learn how to "do this something."
Now from our organization originate not only all modes of the perception of the empirical world, but just as well all our ideal impulses, especially the ethical.
Empirical rules, rather than scientific principles, have hitherto determined the forms which shall be given to ships.
By many measurements of triangles, one might find their area always equal to their height multiplied by half their base, and one might formulate an empirical law to that effect.
Specialists will note that the basis of investigation is still in a great measure empirical; and of this the most obvious criterion is the confusion attaching to the use of the very word 'Cellulose.'
Empiricism is worthy of careful re-working out, for it is a fact that most things are more or less empirical, especially in medicine.
This proof or evidence may be derived from principles originating in the mind, in which case it is called intuitive; or it may be found in external sources, in which case it is called empirical.
From what you say, and from what I have heard from others, there is a very natural desire to trust to one or two empirical remedies, such as general systems of education, and so forth.
For science, "man's" inner life, as well as his corporeal bulk, is an aggregate of empirical items.
I was able to prove the objective reality of the concept of cause in regard to objects of experience, and to demonstrate its origin from pure understanding, without experimental or empirical sources.
And evidently the above empirical test of knowledge is not equally well met in these two cases.
This is in some sense an empirical fact, but it would be hard to state it precisely, because "causal efficacy" is difficult to define.
As 'Philip Beauchamp' argues, we cannot from the purely empirical ground get any motive for taking into account anything beyond our 'temporal' or secular interests.
In fact, each of these two lines of thought leads to the other; they form a circle, and there can be no other center to the circle but the empirical study of evolution.
Not that the colleges would have passed over his returns because they were empirical: they knew better.
The so-called rules of technique are nothing when you come to analyze them but a purely empirical and pragmatic deduction from the actual practice of the masters.
"An empirical question that cannot be decided from a theoretical basis," replied the Wonder. Elmer laughed out, a great shouting guffaw.
This, however, on Bentham's showing, at once introduces the conception of utility, and therefore leads to empirical considerations.
It must, therefore, be some planet outside the orbit of Uranus, and in all probability, according to Bode's empirical law, at nearly double the distance from the sun that Uranus is.
The village would be a different place after that, not known by an empirical experience, but apprehended as a construction, as a settled design, where each field and garden had its appointed place.
If an empirical law be by this means ascertained to exist, an explanation of it must then be sought in the higher science which investigates mind.
Till we can do this, the fact of the connection between them is only an empirical law; but still it is a law.
Its results, whenever the number of coincidences is too large for chance to explain, are empirical laws.
Consequently, it needs more evidence to establish an exception to a very general, than to a special, empirical law.
We may therefore conclude that the molecular volume depends more upon the internal structure of the molecule than its empirical content.
It has been customary to examine the question of immortality from three angles which may be called, respectively, the empirical, the ethical and the philosophical.
Recent events in the United States afford a valuable empirical indication of the effect that improved machinery actually has upon wages.
Instead, however, of considering these kinds of exercise in this empirical way, I will devote a brief space to an examination of them in a more scientific form.
He implies that empirical judgements involve no difficulty, because they rest upon the perception or experience of the objects to which they relate.
Were our perception necessarily of such a kind as to represent things as they are in themselves, no perception would take place a priori, but would always be empirical.
The conclusion, therefore, should be that in all judgements, empirical as well as a priori, we apprehend things only as perceived.
Grammar then, in the usual sense of the word, or the merely formal and empirical analysis of language, owes its origin, like all other sciences, to a very natural and practical want.
They were seeking to find the antidote by a purely empirical method, and had nothing to guide them in the choice of drugs.
Jenny, although she had intended this first visit to be merely empirical, felt bound to commit herself to the affirmative.
Next comes the mathematical world of space, then the corporeal world, and finally the empirical world with its limitations of space and time.
Our intuition is in this case at once empirical, articulate, and such as to survey the broad landscape of the genuine relations of things.
Now when the workings of a given opinion, the empirical results to which, through our actions, it leads, agree with the expectations of the one who holds the opinion, the opinion is to be called true.
If no human and empirical tests of the workings of an opinion are accessible to us, the opinion remains in so far meaningless.
By "natural" we mean simply: Subject to the laws which hold for the sorts of beings whose character and behavior our empirical sciences can study.