empirical fact

collocation in English

meanings of empiricaland fact

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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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fact
noun[C or U]
uk /fækt/ us /fækt/
something that is known to have happened or to exist, especially something for which proof exists, or about which there ...
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Examples of empirical fact

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It is an empiricalfact that a person may continue to pursue bad habits even after experiencing their painful consequences.
The relevant objection to this assertion is that we are not concerned with empiricalfact, but rather with the normative realm.
No, it would be a contingent empiricalfact about human beings that bachelors are unhappy.
Imagine that it is an empiricalfact that male human beings cannot be happy unless married.
Although this is a much more defensible claim than the one for comprehension, it is not supported by empiricalfact.
In the predicated stance, trust is viewed as an antecedent, empiricalfact.
This is the empiricalfact that many individuals both gamble and buy insurance.
I assume this is an empiricalfact about the actual causal relations between mental processes and brains.
Having established licensing movement as an empiricalfact, he then seeks to develop it into an analysis of restructuring from a biclausal base.
It is an empiricalfact that standard collection classes arise by imposing equations on trees.
There is another empiricalfact that could be called upon as evidence, and this fact seems to favor the rule analysis over the construction analysis.
It follows that a legal argument can never be refuted by a moral principle nor yet by any empiricalfact.
The existence of eggshell victims is an empiricalfact that is already factored into the calculus of the liability lottery.
James does not propose any questions of empiricalfact for consideration here.
This central empiricalfact has produced a schizophrenia in institutional economics, reflected in the divide between the 'old' and the 'new'.
That is an empiricalfact and one which can be proven.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Now we agree on the empiricalfact and simply disagree about the policy choice.
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However, it is an empiricalfact that microscopic particles of the same species have completely equivalent physical properties.
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