Philosophical concept
Empirical test
An empirical test confronts a proposition with observations or measurements capable of supporting, refining, or refuting it.
- Works
- 9
- Passages
- 448
- Thinkers
- 3
- Traditions
- 3
Understand uses of the concept
An empirical test confronts a proposition with observations or measurements capable of supporting, refining, or refuting it.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 448 passages across 9 works, including Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel Lecture, Geometry and Experience, French Translation, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German Edition. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: épreuve expérimentale, empirical test, experimental test
Works where the concept is identified
- Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel LectureAlbert Einstein · 14 passages
- Geometry and Experience, French TranslationAlbert Einstein · 18 passages
- Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German EditionAlbert Einstein · 76 passages
- Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English TranslationAlbert Einstein · 105 passages
- Sidelights on RelativityAlbert Einstein · 27 passages
- The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 127 passages
- The Meaning of RelativityAlbert Einstein · 79 passages
- TimaeusPlato · 0 passages
- The Law and the WordThomas Troward · 0 passages