empirical
[ em-pir-i-kuhl ]
/ ɛmˈpɪr ɪ kəl /
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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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Origin of empirical
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Examples from the Web for non-empirical
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 SmithThose who deny the possibility of all non-empirical knowledge naturally hold that every axiom is ultimately based on observation.
But, in so doing, it accepted the particularism of experience and proceeded to supplement it from non-empirical sources.
Creative Intelligence|John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. KallenThe 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
empirical
/ (ɛmˈpɪrɪkəl) /
adjective
derived from or relating to experiment and observation rather than theory
(of medical treatment) based on practical experience rather than scientific proof
philosophy
- (of knowledge) derived from experience rather than by logic from first principlesCompare a priori, a posteriori
- (of a proposition) subject, at least theoretically, to verificationCompare analytic (def. 4), synthetic (def. 4)
of or relating to medical quackery
noun
statistics the posterior probability of an event derived on the basis of its observed frequency in a sampleCompare mathematical probability See also posterior probability
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empirical
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empirical
[ ĕm-pîr′ĭ-kəl ]
adj.
Relying on or derived from observation or experiment.
Verifiable or provable by means of observation or experiment.
Of or being a philosophy of medicine emphasizing practical experience and observation over scientific theory.
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empirical
[ ĕm-pîr′ĭ-kəl ]
Relying on or derived from observation or experiment.
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