# Empirical test

- Id: `empirical_test`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/empirical-test/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `24e4f6127d26d2a20de66bd41943f1d98fb597c978ddf9693b162570233377ab`

## Summary

An empirical test confronts a proposition with observations or measurements capable of supporting, refining, or refuting it.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:troward.law_and_word:III",
    "passage:plato.timaeus:68",
    "passage:einstein.relativity_popular_en:section-0100"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "épreuve expérimentale",
    "empirical test",
    "experimental test"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 9,
    "passages": 448,
    "thinkers": 3,
    "traditions": 3
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "science",
        "name": "Science and scientific thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/science-and-scientific-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "new-thought",
        "name": "New Thought and mental science",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/new-thought-and-mental-science/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "einstein.nobel_lecture",
        "title": "Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel Lecture",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/nobel-lecture/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.geometry_experience_fr",
        "title": "Geometry and Experience, French Translation",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/geometry-experience-fr/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.relativity_popular_de",
        "title": "Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German Edition",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/relativity-popular-de/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.relativity_popular_en",
        "title": "Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English Translation",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/relativity-popular-en/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.sidelights_on_relativity",
        "title": "Sidelights on Relativity",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/sidelights-on-relativity/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.born_letters",
        "title": "The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s Letters",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/born-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.meaning_of_relativity",
        "title": "The Meaning of Relativity",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/meaning-of-relativity/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.timaeus",
        "title": "Timaeus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/timaeus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "troward.law_and_word",
        "title": "The Law and the Word",
        "author": "Thomas Troward",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-troward/law-and-word/"
    }
]
```