Definition of Empirical

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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.

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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

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
Edmund Husserl

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
Steven Pinker

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
Steven Pinker

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
Steven Pinker

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

Empirical Translations

empirical in French is empirique
empirical in Hungarian is empirikus, tapasztalati
empirical in Italian is empirico
empirical in Swedish is empirisk

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