empirically

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Their paper, “The Empirically Inscrutable Climate-Economy Relationship,” starts from the most basic question in climate economics: Can researchers actually measure how climate affects the economy from the historical record?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Empirically, even when a manager turns performance around, the ride is often so rough that investors struggle.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 23, 2022

Empirically, all the evidence runs against this belief.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2014

Empirically, the authors explain, there are two ways to investigate this hypothesis, with either a prospective or retrospective study.

From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2012

Empirically it seems plain that the great majority of our volitions have causes, but it cannot, on this account, be held necessarily certain that all have causes.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand