empirical
[em-pir-i-kuhl]
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adjective
derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
depending upon experience or observation alone, without using scientific method or theory, especially as in medicine.
provable or verifiable by experience or experiment.
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But, in so doing, it accepted the particularism of experience and proceeded to supplement it from non-empirical sources.
Creative IntelligenceJohn Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
The proofs which Kant offers of them are, indeed, of a non-empirical a priori character.
A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'Norman Kemp Smith
Both thesis and antithesis may be true, the latter of the world of sense and the former of its non-empirical ground.
A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'Norman Kemp Smith
Those who deny the possibility of all non-empirical knowledge naturally hold that every axiom is ultimately based on observation.
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