The 'epic poet' is a construct, not an empirical description of epic poets.
Simply put, the sociology of knowledge, to proceed with empirical description, must impute specific 'knowledge' to specific groups.
It is an adaptation of Hans Jenny's five factors not for explanation of soil formation, but for empirical descriptions of relationships between soil and other spatially referenced factors.
The crying of infants with colic: A controlled empirical description.
Sellars favours a synoptic vision, wherein the scientific image takes ultimate precedence in cases of conflict, at least with respect to empirical descriptions and explanations.
As demonstrated above, only a good scientific hypothesis can lead to the development of a methodology that will allow the empirical description, be it dynamic or static.
Historically, the Beaufort wind force scale provides an empirical description of wind speed based on observed sea conditions.
This challenge to 'universalism' need not pose in its place a simple relativism or a mere piling up of empirical descriptions.
It has been noted that the Rind et al. controversy demonstrates that employing the naturalistic fallacy leads to situations in which empirical descriptions of nature are seen as dictating moral conclusions.
In fluid dynamics the Borda-Carnot equation is an empirical description of the mechanical energy losses of the fluid due to a (sudden) flow expansion.