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empiricist

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Recent Examples of empiricist Like the work of the empiricist who inspired Lewis’s trip, this contemporary story leads us to a more complex and more honest understanding of the past. — Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026 Rinehart is the empiricist of the group. — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 And across them, the detective—once Modernism’s heroic empiricist—a figure of melancholy drift, a leftover from a world that still believed in beginnings and ends. — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025

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Still, some observers argue that holding Saturday’s Mass at Place de la Concorde and along the Champs-Élysées, near the National Assembly and the presidential palace, could be seen as a continuation of Catholicism’s privileged cultural position.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
Storing explosive ammunition and stationing snipers in the middle of a busy traffic circle close to other, more secure military locations, including the Pentagon, strikes many observers as simultaneously dangerous and ridiculous.

— Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep. 2026

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By removing emotion from wealth planning and investing, AI helps ensure that decisions are based on data and empirics rather than intuition.

— Logan Weaver, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Economics is hard, but many of us who are not averse to giving due respect to professionals who have a real understanding of how the world works have shifted our assessment on the empirics of late.

— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2010

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