How to Use empiricism in a Sentence

empiricism

noun
  • Together, these ideas gave the new school of thought its name, logical empiricism.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • But not everyone agrees with this emerging consensus, and a new wave of empiricism has emerged over the past decade.
    — Jacob Beck, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In the way that adding empiricism, or adding simulations, has to our modern process of science.
    — Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
  • But empiricism and artistry frequently start from the same place - an irrepressible urge to know more about the world.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2016
  • The fashion and beauty industries seem to be embracing a kind of faux empiricism these days.
    — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • But even the implications Hilditch draws from his armchair empiricism are faulty.
    — Aaron Rhodes, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Isaac then all but mocks my belief in a rediscovery of moderation and empiricism to help us.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Meanwhile, over at the EPA, the war against empiricism continues apace.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 July 2017
  • The election was a victory for gut instinct over empiricism, for cynicism over reason.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2016
  • The same empiricism led him to keep urging Virgin Galactic engineers not to be spooked by the past.
    — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Democrats today are guided not by sober empiricism but by fanciful ideology.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • For a decade or so, their philosophical approach, logical empiricism, became the most fashionable in the world.
    — David Edmonds, WSJ, 14 May 2021
  • Rejecting evidence and empiricism is a step toward despotism.
    — Jonathan Foley, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
  • Like the principle of liberty, the principle of empiricism moves us always towards a better, freer, healthier world.
    — David Dobbs, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2013
  • That’s because Facebook operates under a veneer of empiricism.
    — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 11 May 2016
  • The empiricism that matters to Djokovic is his own experience, and his experience consists largely of winning.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2020
  • These rankings are a reminder that what matters to residents is less the boldness of the vision than relentless empiricism and careful execution.
    — Nicholas D. Kristof, Mercury News, 13 June 2026
  • This sort of casual empiricism—which has crept back into mainstream media and other institutions—was a competitive sport among my family and friends.
    — Roland Fryer, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Other researchers counter that Slobodchikoff’s techniques are sound and widely used and that reluctance to embrace his research owes more to prejudice than empiricism.
    — Ferris Jabr, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • There are competing accounts of the authorship of this affirmation of the importance of empiricism to the intellectual method.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The byproducts—the tribalism, the chilling demands for conformity of thought, the questioning of science and empiricism—can sometimes be alarming, even frightening.
    — Richard Aldous, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • That means, in its modern manifestation, that the tribe comes before the country as a whole, before any neutral institutions that get in its way, before reason and empiricism, and before the rule of law.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The witch rejects empiricism; by embracing witchcraft, the young woman is rehabilitating an old, stigmatized identity and finding within it a source of strength.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 21 July 2017
  • The Times, in Naureckas’s portrayal, found Silver’s empiricism a threat to its own -- and journalism’s own -- solipsistic worldview.
    — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2013
  • This view has influenced thinking in Christian and Persian philosophies, British empiricism and Marxist doctrine.
    — György Buzsáki, Scientific American, 14 May 2022
  • Fibonacci’s new world rested on objective, quantifiable value and empiricism — a novel and fundamental concept.
    — Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Other scholars have pointed out that feminist standpoint theory is helpful in understanding white empiricism and who is eligible to be a worthy observer of the human condition and our world.
    — Monica R. McLemore, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The whole tradition of British empiricism that followed on from Locke is defined by this prioritization of the physical over the spiritual and the transcendent.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Milton Friedman, whose empiricism led him to embrace free-market public policy, was the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 8 May 2021
  • Reentering it with empiricism and moderation to find different compromises for different issues is the only way out of our increasingly dangerous impasse.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Sep. 2017

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