Not exact matches
Instead he wrote a book for lay people in which he was
much more relaxed and,
without criticizing (or even mentioning) his work in Principia Mathematica, laid an
empirical foundation for his monumental metaphysical work of Process and Reality.
Without some
empirical basis for concern, speculative theoretical mechanisms of harm simply should not be given
much resource allocation except for gathering the missing basic
empirical data.
Since «
empirical scientists» can not do
much of interest
without mathematics, they might perhaps start wondering if mathematical truths (which are not empirically observable) are more real than their own «Its just an hypothesis» beliefs.]
Similarly, if you have good input and output data, we can sometimes develop a useful
empirical relationship of the system behavior
without really knowing
much about how the system works.