empirical claim
collocation in Englishmeaningsofempiricalandclaim
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empirical
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpɪr.ɪ.kəl/us/emˈpɪr.ɪ.kəl/
based on what is experienced or seen rather than ...
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claim
noun[C]
uk/kleɪm/us/kleɪm/
a statement that something is true or is a fact, although other people might not ...
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(Definition ofempiricalandclaimfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofempirical claim
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It is not empirically falsifiable because it is not anempiricalclaimbut rather a decision-theoretic one.
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It must certainly be anempiricalclaimthat it is harder to draw principled and salient lines here than elsewhere.
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The idea that positivism is committed to thisempiricalclaimis problematic for two reasons.
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In any case, legal positivism does not purport to be anempiricalclaimabout how people happen to determine the content of law.
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The founders would not have accepted theempiricalclaimfor three reasons.
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But both sides also agreed that theempiricalclaimwas false because, again, the size of the congressional district would be too large.
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But, given recent research in the area of human psychology, thisempiricalclaimseems doubtful.
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However, the claim should not be read as anempiricalclaimbut as a claim about responsibility.
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Theempiricalclaim, however, explains why this justification fails.
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This strikes us as, at best, a dubiousempiricalclaim.
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That underlying psychological mechanisms must exist in support of this view is more an article of faith among error theorists than a well-articulatedempiricalclaim.
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To raise this question is not merely to dispute anempiricalclaimbut to challenge the very coherence of the doctrine.
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Here is where theempiricalclaimabout the evaluation metric is relevant.
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So the "communities of interest" justification failed for both sides only because of the failure of theempiricalclaim.
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But we should be cautious about asserting thatempiricalclaima priori.
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But this is anempiricalclaim, the truth of which is far from obvious.
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This algorithm is anempiricalclaimabout the procedure which leads to the mental representation of the lexicon of a speaker of this variety.
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Suppose, that is, that anempiricalclaimof this kind is true.
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Sheng has isolated and quantified a (dubious?)empiricalclaim, but he fails to provide any reasons at all for thinking that the claim is true.
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