2. Adjective. (sciences) Not relying directly on data; theory-driven ¹
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Definition of Nonempirical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonempirical
Literary usage of Nonempirical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Concept of Knowledge by Panayot Butchvarov (1970)
"But there would also be a posteriori nonempirical propositions, that is, propositions
knowable a posteriori but not describing observable states of affairs. ..."
2. The Field of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919)
"If we can find what are the rational or nonempirical factors of knowledge, and
determine in what situation these factors are operative in the production of ..."
3. Man and the Cosmos: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922)
"Thus we find an ascending scale of universality or comprehensiveness in knowledge
from particular fact up the most universal and nonempirical principles ..."
4. Orpheus Philologus: Bachofen Versus Mommsen on the Study of Antiquity by Lionel Gossman (1983)
"If only Bachofen had accepted the poetic, visionary, and nonempirical nature of
his work, Gelzer suggests, everything would have gone much better for him. ..."
5. The Legitimacy of International Organizations by Jean-Marc Coicaud (2001)
"... transcendental-philosophical hopes for an aprioristic reconstruction of the
equipment of a nonempirical species subject. of consciousness in general. ..."
6. Cultural Diversity & Early Education: Report of a Workshop edited by Nancy A. Crowell (1998)
"Rather, participants noted, it is important to remember that nonempirical
considerations are essential to understanding the ways in which research is ..."
7. Initiative: Human Agency and Society by Tibor R. Machan (2000)
"... be understood in terms of the fixed categories of human understanding, something
that logical positivists, at least, have abandoned as nonempirical. ..."
8. The Philosophy of Thingsby James Henry Ferguson by James Henry Ferguson (1922)
"Page 836: "Space-Time is thus the source of the categories, the nonempirical
characters of existent things, which those things possess because of certain ..."
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