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empirical
/ˌɛmˈpɪɹɪkəl/
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“The argument needs empirical support.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does empirical mean?
adjective
- Pertaining to or based on experience, as opposed to theory.
- Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
- Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
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noun
- A measurement or result achieved by empirical means.
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/ˌɛmˈpɪɹɪkəl/
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Our derivative knowledge always depends upon some pure a priori knowledge and usually also depends upon some pure empirical knowledge.
Recent research, it is true, has discovered greater empirical discontinuity--leaps, "mutations"--whereas Darwin believed in the importance of small variations slowly accumulated.
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Properly to bound our discussion of Humian skepticism, a few words have to be said concerning the empirical method of the sciences.
It is mainly important, from our point of view, to separate reactions possessing an empirical value from those whose value is zero.
Atoms, molecules, chemical formulae, the mathematical propositions in the study of physics--all these have primarily an intellectual value and only indirectly an empirical value.