Empirical
Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.
Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies.
Related Definitions:
Alone,
And,
As,
Deep,
Depending,
Due,
Empiric,
Especially,
Experience,
Experiment,
Founded,
In,
Insight,
Medical,
Observation,
Of,
Or,
Pertaining,
Phenomena,
Practice,
Regard,
Remedies,
Said,
Science,
Skill,
The,
Theory,
To,
Upon,
Versed,
Wanting,
Without
Empirical Quotations
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
Ann Landers
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
Gottfried Leibniz
Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
Talcott Parsons
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
Talcott Parsons
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
Talcott Parsons
It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
Talcott Parsons
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
Talcott Parsons
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons
Empirical Translations
empirical in French is empirique
empirical in Hungarian is empirikus, tapasztalati
empirical in Italian is empirico
empirical in Swedish is empirisk
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
