This can be empirically tested. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We have also INCREASED revenues to the US Treasury … again empirically measured. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » The Attack Dog Presidency] Reference
Linguistics regarding philosophy's origination in empirically definable "facts of language.". From Wordnik.com. [Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.] Reference
All IDers agree that the question of whether we can infer design empirically is interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny and a Book] Reference
“We have also INCREASED revenues to the US Treasury †¦ again empirically measured.”. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » The Attack Dog Presidency] Reference
When we have the technology to measure pain empirically (FMRI maybe?), we can revisit our definitions. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Marc Thiessen: Obama is Too Good at Killing Terrorists] Reference
What can generally be observed empirically is typically a form of irreducible complexity where if a part is taken away then a lack of function results. From Wordnik.com. [Assessing Causality] Reference
Companies know that, empirically, which is why they hire booth babes. From Wordnik.com. [RubyCorner] Reference
It's how students learn to ask questions so that they can be answered empirically, which is a skill that every person should have. From Wordnik.com. [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference
It has often been pointed out that “Water is H2O” is a necessary truth, but it can only be justified empirically, that is, a posteriori. From Wordnik.com. [A Priori Justification and Knowledge] Reference
(Look up the word "empirically" before making some smartass remark about how abstinence always works.). From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: McGavick = Human, Liberal Bloggers = Angry] Reference
I'm not willing to go along with the fiction that attempts to "empirically" assess souls is anything other than anti-science and anti-NOMA in nature. From Wordnik.com. [Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID] Reference
Wish I'd had a student who could reason so "empirically" from his / her own experience. From Wordnik.com. [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference
Sometimes, though, a superlative is empirically justified. From Wordnik.com. [The Editor’s Desk] Reference
He arrived empirically at many of his specific techniques. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to Non-Violence] Reference
What do you want us to get a real handle, empirically, on where we are?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2008] Reference
There is no argument in any quarter empirically or rationally about that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2007] Reference
I have, in various essays, suggested ways that faith might be empirically true. From Wordnik.com. [Clay Farris Naff: Stephen Hawking to God: Your Services Are No Longer Needed; God to Hawking: You So Don't Get Who I Am] Reference
While this school of thought has yet to be empirically proven it has a lot of support. From Wordnik.com. [David Isenberg: It All Depends on What You Mean by Cost-Effective] Reference
They fit the facts well enough and produce results in practice, that has been empirically proven. From Wordnik.com. [The K-Factor] Reference
It is empirically false but emotionally persuasive, in the true spirit of propaganda and demagoguery. From Wordnik.com. [Randall Amster: Climate of Fear: SB 1070 and Extremist Violence in Arizona] Reference
The warming started long ago, and the connection to human activity has not been empirically established. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Green-Challenged] Reference
Like most things that are intuitively obvious, though, self-esteem can be hard to demonstrate empirically. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, I'm Terrific!] Reference
It has been shown clinically and empirically that what is said at those times is often embedded into our minds. From Wordnik.com. [Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Words of Grace: Christianity and Verbal First Aid] Reference
This is all we can discover empirically regarding the mutual relationships of three forces engaging at a point. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
On your own Web site, you got a great little calculator for determining what will get you the most money empirically. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2006] Reference
These dietaries have been adjusted empirically (the earlier ones at least), and are generally considered as satisfactory. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition] Reference
Perhaps he can not read or write, though daily engaged in carrying on, empirically, the most difficult of chemical processes. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
SULLIVAN: But it is also morally wrong, Anderson, and empirically wrong, to say that the U.S. military somehow is not educated. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2006] Reference
As a philosophy major and the daughter of two empirically minded economists, I find it unsettling that we rarely know the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Equal Before The Law] Reference
So far, the tradition of "rough consensus and running code" seems to be proving itself empirically as a robust governance system. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
As healers, we can explore whatever works for patients rather than limit ourselves to those treatments that can be measured empirically. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
The changes which we somewhat roughly and empirically group together as the effects of "use and disuse" are of widely diverse character. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
But the reality is in purely military terms, this is without question, empirically, an improving situation for the United States and Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2007] Reference
I didn't empirically refute the ideological claim of the HF guy because I didn't show the relationship between child poverty and single-parenthood. From Wordnik.com. [Philip N. Cohen: Poverty, Single Mothers, and Race/Ethnicity] Reference
He enjoyed speculating on the subject of marriage, especially in the presence of those friends who unlike himself knew something about it empirically. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
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