Definition of empiricism
1a : a former school of medical practice founded on experience without the aid of science or theoryb : quackery, charlatanry
2a : the practice of relying on observation and experiment especially in the natural sciencesb : a tenet arrived at empirically
3 : a theory that all knowledge originates in experience
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: the practice of basing ideas and theories on testing and experience
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