empirical
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"After 160 years of getting it wrong, this paper corrects this very important feature based not on guesswork, but on empirical evidence."
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026
“Nearly all empirical studies find little to no tangible impacts of sports teams and facilities on local economic activity,” says a 2022 review of decades of research.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
The idea that “there will be no victor or vanquished” is not poetic fatalism, it is empirical reality.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026
“Our culture formed and bound by empirical science, will never credit such an explanation. But what if there is some important sense in which it is true?”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
With the scientific revolution, the purely logical world gave way to an empirical one, based upon observation rather than philosophy.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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