His subjectivity appearsempirically to us always as a determined subjectivity, the determination of which proceeds from the object in which the spirit, theoretically and practically, has previously objectified itself.
It is true that there is a body which we did not give to ourselves, which therefore is not a product of our spirit, nor part of its life and substance, but only if we think of the body of the individual, empirically considered as such.
This threefold realisation admits empirically of a separation that makes it possible to have one without the others.
This great and important law, like the law of differentiation, had long been empirically established by palaeontological experience, before Darwin's Theory of Selection gave us the key to the explanation of its cause.
The sense world (mundus sensibilis) lies open to our senses and our intellect, and is empirically knowable within certain limits.
In opposition to this biological and empirically grounded theory, the current metaphysical psychology regards the brain as the seat of the soul, only in a very different sense.
Nevertheless physics, which formally assumes a space containing points, straight lines, and planes, is foundempirically to give results applicable to the sensible world.
It seems probable that there is something in this definition, but it is not quite satisfactory, because empirically there is no such limit to be obtained from sense-data.
In all science we have to distinguish two sorts of laws: first, those that are empirically verifiable but probably only approximate; secondly, those that are not verifiable, but may be exact.
A correlation can only be ascertained empirically by the correlated objects being constantly found together.
What can be known empirically about the matter of a thing is only approximate, because we cannot get to know the appearances of the thing from very small distances, and cannot accurately infer the limit of these appearances.
The sanity and integrity of intellectual operations depend almost entirely upon the differentiation which we make between the necessities arising out of assumptions and those which spring up empirically from established facts.
The notion of the egopsychic consciousness is based upon data already empiricallydetermined from the mass of evidences everywhere observable.
Logic is a matter of profound human importance precisely because it is empirically founded and experimentally applied.
Out of this relationship of cause and effect as it is empirically ascertained grow the norms and regulations of an art of thinking.
Good advice, whenempirically taken and rashly followed, is as an eye in the hand, sure to be put out the first thing on trying to use it.
To follow a foreign rule empirically will often be to fare as the monkey fared, who, undertaking to shave, as he had seen his master do, gashed his face and paws.
From this conception of variability two important empirically established facts can be theoretically deduced, viz.
Empirically this small amount of variability is doubtless present, but the question arises, upon what does it depend?
Such a characterisation is possible because we have recognised as the inner nature of the world something thoroughly real and empirically given.
One can even convince oneself to a certain extent empirically and as a matter of fact of the ideality of this form of our perception by fixing one's eyes upon the powerlessness of time as opposed to natural forces.
But now, on the other hand, we can show the source of these differencesempirically in the nature of the parents; and besides this, the meeting and connection of these parents has clearly been the work of the most accidental circumstances.
This chance may be calculated on the basis of Quetelet's law, whenever the agreement of the fluctuation of the quality under consideration has been empirically determined.
Such reversion is supposed to prove that they are mere varieties, and at the same time to indicate empirically the species from which they have sprung.
Here we find ourselves in the region of acute controversy in which it is useless to do more than note empirically the various solutions adopted by different states.
And here, also, is another very singular quarter to go to for a science which is so radical in morality; here is a place, where men have empirically hit upon the fact that it has some relation to policy.
Hegel, Royce, Bradley, and the Oxford absolutists in general seem to agree about this logical absurdity of manyness-in-oneness in the only places where it isempirically found.
For pluralism, all that we are required to admit as the constitution of reality is what we ourselves find empirically realized in every minimum of finite life.
In this account Royce makes by far the manliest of the post-hegelian attempts to read some empirically apprehensible content into the notion of our relation to the absolute mind.
What Mr. Bradley means is nothing like this, but rather that such things as motion are nowhere real, and that, even in their aboriginal and empirically incorrigible seats, relations are impossible of comprehension.
For science his acts are the inevitable results of precedent phenomena, which, in turn, are themselves empirically caused; nevertheless moral judgment holds him responsible for his acts.
We have elsewhere discussed the more recent attempts to establish a metaphysic which shall be empirically well grounded and shall cautiously rise from facts.
Footnote 1: The example of Arthur Collier shows that the same results which Berkeley reaches empirically can be obtained from the standpoint of rationalism.
Now, empiricallyand metaphysically, no one interest is more excellent than any other.
Following the Greek lead, certain empirically minded modern thinkers construe geometry wholly from an intellectual point of view.
That something happens, that is to say, that something or some state exists which before was not, cannot be empirically perceived, unless a phenomenon precedes, which does not contain in itself this state.
For it is of course only in phenomena that we can empirically cognize this continuity in the connection of times.
This synthesis is pure when the diversity is not given empirically but a priori (as that in space and time).
Footnote: For the understanding cannot admit among phenomena a condition which is itself empirically unconditioned.
For the observer, as a purely cognising individual, any movement of his body is simply an empirically perceived fact.
Kant says, Time cannot be perceived; therefore no succession of representations can be empiricallyperceived as objective: i.
Everyone knows the result at which he arrives: that causality is nothing beyond the empirically perceived succession of things and states in Time, with which habit has made us familiar.
From the foregoing exposition it follows, that the application of the causal law to anything but changes in the material, empirically given world, is an abuse of it.
The mere but empirically determined consciousness of my own existence proves the existence of objects in space external to me.
Besides the mere fact of existence there must be something by which A determines the place in time for B, and conversely B the place for A, because only under this condition can these substances be empirically represented as coexistent.
This conclusion would, of course, be absurd, for what Kant considers to be the empirically known qualities of objects disappear, if the spatial character of objects is removed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "empirically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
