Alice the novelist, for example, does not know what empirical means and at one point insists absurdly that "ideas do not come across in pictures."

But we have no a priori justification of this premise, and any attempt to derive it by empirical means would be circular.

Without an academic formation, he shaped himself as a singer and actor by empirical means.

Verification of data through creative participation is possible through practical conception only and can at best be validated by empirical means.

Exterior ballistics evolved by purely empirical means, trial and error.

Research can be proved only by empirical means, not arguments alone.

A consequence of this position is that God's existence can never be demonstrated, either by empirical means or by philosophical argument.

Game theory provides an empirical means of advancing the science of memetics.

In Kant's view, a person cannot decide whether conduct is "right," or moral, through empirical means.

To reach this limit by empirical means is impossible, and all attempts to determine it a priori according to a principle, are alike in vain.