Such judgements are supposed to be true or false in a fairly straightforward way, and to be testable by empirical enquiry or perhaps appeal to the common experience of the human race.

First, it is relative to the conditions which are imposed on a particular empirical enquiry.

Third, from a methodological perspective, perspective, mentalistic accounts are seen as valid so long as they are closely tied to observations, so that any proposed link between behaviour and underlying knowledge is subject to rigorous scrutiny and ultimately to falsification through additional empirical enquiry (see Figure 5.1).

Goldthorpe and his colleagues conducted an empirical enquiry into working class affluence and working class politics to conclude that embourgeoisement is not a tenable thesis.

He summarized that Samartha resorted to Advaitic system not on theological grounds but on mere empirical enquiry.

We cannot merely assume that our minds are so filled, but this must be treated as an object for empirical enquiry.

First, it has involved extensive empirical enquiry into the dynamic character, structural elements and governance failures of contemporary society.

Centre staff engage in criminological and penological research, including that based upon empirical enquiries; the sociological and historical analysis of law, deviance and punishment, medical jurisprudence, studies in sexuality and gender, the philosophy of law and studies in legal reasoning, including the relationship between law and language.

Their insights shook our perception of who we are and where we stand in the world and in their wake have left an uneasy co-existence: science vs. religion, faith vs. empirical enquiry.

The extent to which ideas and values actually shape policy change requires careful empirical enquiry.