empiricism

Examples of empiricism in the following topics:

• Empirical Formulas

  • Empirical formulas describe the simplest whole-number ratio of the elements in a compound.
  • Empirical formulas are the simplest form of notation.
  • Empirical formulas can be determined using mass composition data.

• Lab: Probability Topics

  • Record the results in the "Without Replacement" column section of the "Empirical Results" table.
  • Use the data from the "Empirical Results" table to calculate the empirical probability questions.
  • Convert P(no yellows) to decimal format for both Theoretical "With Replacement" and for Empirical "With Replacement".
  • Empirical "With Replacement": P(no yellows) = c.

• Reasons to avoid international markets

  • Kaynak, "An Empirical Investigation of the Differences Between Initiating and Continuing Exporters," European Journal of Marketers, Vol. 26, No.3, 1992. )

• Molecular Formulas

• Pragmatism

  • Peirce was concerned with inference to explanatory hypotheses as outside the usual foundational alternative between deductivist rationalism and inductivist empiricism—though he himself was a mathematical logician and a founder of statistics.

• Rationalism

  • This is commonly called continental rationalism, because it was predominant in the continental schools of Europe, whereas in Britain empiricism, or a theory that knowledge comes only or primarily from a sensory experience, dominated.
  • Although rationalism and empiricism are traditionally seen as opposing each other, the distinction between rationalists and empiricists was drawn at a later period and would not have been recognized by philosophers involved in Enlightenment debates.
  • On the other hand, Leibniz admitted in his book Monadology that "we are all mere Empirics in three fourths of our actions."
  • Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) rejected the dogmas of both rationalism and empiricism and tried to reconcile rationalism and religious belief, individual freedom and political authority, as well as map out a view of the public sphere through private and public reason.

• Interest Rates and the Business Cycle

  • Empirical evidence indicates that market interest rates rise during a business cycle and fall during recessions.

• Which Methodology is "Correct?"

  • Modern economic theory has a long tradition of following a "modernist" methodology characterized by a strong faith in empiricism and rationalism.

• Reasons for entering international markets

  • Kaynak, "An Empirical Investigation of the Differences Between Initiating and Continuing Exporters," European Journal of Marketers, Vol. 26, No.3, 1992. ) But although many firms view in markets with trepidation, others still make the decision to go international.

• Sociology and Science

  • Early sociological studies were thought to be similar to the natural sciences due to their use of empiricism and the scientific method.
  • The effect of employing the scientific method and stressing empiricism was the distinction of sociology from theology, philosophy, and metaphysics.