This will allow a choice between the two in the light of their empirical contents.
Furthermore, Kant erroneously identified the realm of the non-formal (material) with sensible or empirical content.
This makes talk about the empirical content of a single statement misleading.
Yet conspicuous consumption remained mainly a theoretical curiosity for more than a century, with little empirical content or support.
Since the paradigm consists of theoretical terms which carry only limited empirical content the risk is not very high that data are forced by its application.
Or maybe any conceivable account is translatable into cognitive theory, which then loses all empirical content.
Although formal sciences are conceptual systems, lacking empirical content, this does not mean that they have no relation to the real world.
Much of the empirical content of thermodynamics is contained in the four laws.
But the fact is, it didn't have any empirical content.
Some think this implies that the Arrow-Debreu model lacks empirical content.