empirical
[ em-pir-i-kuhl ]
/ ɛmˈpɪr ɪ kəl /
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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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 sample
Compare mathematical probability See also posterior probability
Derived forms of empirical
empirically, adverb empiricalness, nounMedical definitions for empirical
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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em•pir′i•cal•ly adv.Scientific definitions for empirical
empirical
[ ĕm-pîr′ĭ-kəl ]
Relying on or derived from observation or experiment.