Sentences with phrase «empirical fact of nature»

The average layperson may have the belief that the SCC is an empirical fact of nature that scientists in white lab coats measure with their equipment.

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By confronting theory with empirical facts, this book for practitioners, researchers and advanced students provides a fresh, new, and often surprising perspective on topics as diverse as optimal trading, price impact, the fragile nature of liquidity, and even the reasons why people trade at all.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

In both cases psychicalistic ideas were useful in arriving at some empirical facts, for example, about the composite nature of «loudness» as a variable of sense experience (Hartshorne 1934, pp. 61 - 72), or the biological significance of «highly developed» bird song, or of contrast and uncertainty in the sequence of songs or phrases (Hartshorne 1973, pp. 106 - 112, 117f, 119 - 136, 151 - 188).

He had hopes that experimental work would force a buffer of objective, empirical fact between nature and a scientist's opinions.