Word Meanings - EMPIRICIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An empiric.

EMPIRICIST
An empiric.
EMPIRICALLY
By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
EMPIRIC; EMPIRICAL
1. Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments. In philosophical language, the term empirical means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience
EMPIRICISM
The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience. (more info) 1. The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment. 2. Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on
EMPIRIC
1. One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience. 2. One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science
UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
METEMPIRICS
The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience.
METEMPIRICISM
The science that is concerned with metempirics.
METEMPIRIC; METEMPIRICAL
Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics. If then the empirical designates the province we include within the range of science, the province we exclude may be fitly styled the metempirical. G. H. Lewes.