It's hard to tell whether the author of the post at Prosthesis thinks "nonempirical" factors in theory selection are bad for science, but it's clear that he/she thinks they are unavoidable. ❋ Chris (2004)
Their culture, which dismisses science, is often nonempirical. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He recalls that in all interventions he took the radical positivist line that science is the basis of knowledge; that it is empirical; and that nonempirical enterprises are either logic or nonsense (p. 68). ❋ Preston, John (2009)
The present bibliography does not include all of the approximately 3,900 diffusion publications 75 percent empirical and 25 percent nonempirical currently available, as such a complete bibliography would itself constitute a very large book. ❋ Everett M. Rogers (1995)
To say that it can't is just baseless nonempirical assertion. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Its nonempirical roots in Kant notwithstanding, it is now the major method used by experimental cognitive scientists. ❋ Brook, Andrew (2008)
Again, that's all nonempirical, so take it all accordingly. ❋ Unknown (2008)
At the time, one of the biggest income streams in the mental health professions was coming from “recovered memory therapy,” which rested on the nonempirical notion that in a proper therapeutic environment, a person could recover memories of traumatic events that occurred even during early infancy. ❋ John Rosemond (2007)
They DO mention supernatural nonempirical crapola to be added to a definition of science, and in Kansas, that means just what? ❋ Unknown (2005)
I like Gould's take, in which nonempirical most notably aesthetic factors are not only inevitable, but desirable. ❋ Chris (2004)
This bibliography does not include all of the approximately 5,200+ diffusion publications 75 percent empirical and 25 percent nonempirical currently available, as such a bibliography would itself constitute a large book. ❋ Everett M. Rogers (2003)
Whereas we could explain our failure to perceive an empirical particular, as well as our perceiving numerically one and the same empirical particular, in terms of our relationship to it in some nonempirical dimension, no such analogous explanation can be offered for our failure to perceive God and the like, or our perceiving numerically one and the same God .... ❋ 1932- (2000)
I apply a variety of computational methods, semiempirical and nonempirical, as well as qualitative arguments, to problems of structure and reactivity of both organic and inorganic molecules of medium size. ❋ Unknown (1982)
It is true that Rousseau believed in a source of truth that was nonempirical and which he called the heart. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)
(“Metempirical knowledge” is meant to designate all forms of knowl - edge of a transcendent, numinal, nonempirical sort.) ❋ KAI NIELSEN (1968)
The Idea of goodness, again, is part and parcel of the Platonic tradition as a nonempirical representation of perfect goodness; with this generic meaning, this term was used also by other philosophical schools ❋ GIORGIO TONELLI (1968)
