Analyzing Rhetorical Techniques in Machiavelli's The Prince English
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What is the definition of empirical evidence?
Empirical evidence is evidence based on personal experience
Empirical evidence is evidence based on scientific research
Empirical evidence is evidence based on accepted truths.
Empirical evidence is evidence based on historical facts.

Empirical evidence is evidence based on scientific research

Explanation:

The concept of empirical evidence refers to data collected through scientific research, meaning by observation or experimentation, to analyze it following the scientific method.

In The Prince, Machiavelli determines empirical evidence is the only valid source to draw scientific conclusions about history and society. Furthermore, he applies this method to his writing of The Prince, by outlining a social structure based on his knowledge about history.

- "is not only a luminous passive watcher in the night sky, but it is a powerful force.

it does symbolizes love,   lust   and dreaming and is seen as a power symbolic force that determines and affects human behaviors and reactions.

in the context of the question it does remain you that he events are only taking place at night and the reader of the passage of time."