«The evidence for the success of TVHR in this study depends on assumptions related to the reproductive physiology and behavioral ecology of domestic cats that, in our view, do not seem to be supported by available empirical evidence and remain to be better understood.» (voxfelina.com)
Our task is not (as it is for positivism) to discover the covering laws that explain and predict observable associations of conditions and events, but to use all available empirical evidence and powers of reason to develop conceptual models that as accurately as possible describe the real capacities and causal processes operating at the deeper, unobservable level of reality. (firstthings.com)
Instead, as realists, we have to use all available empirical evidence to understand what we can't always see, including the innate capacities and aptitudes we observe in their highly complex expressions when they are realized but can not see when they are not. (firstthings.com)