Assertion: psychological egoism | /r/HasProperty | empirical claim
Facets:
value: undoubtedly
type: DEGREE
value: unlike ethical egoism
type: OTHER
value: merely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Unlike ethical egoism, psychological egoism is merely an empirical claim about what kinds of motives we have, not what they ought to be.
text: Psychological egoism is the empirical doctrine that the determining motive of every voluntary action is a desire for one's own welfare.
text: While psychological egoism is undoubtedly an empirical claim, there hasn’t always been a substantial body of experimental data that bears on the debate.
text: Psychological egoism is an empirical claim; however, considerations from biology provide only one route to addressing the egoism-altruism debate empirically.