empiricism

noun

em·pir·i·cism im-ˈpir-ə-ˌsi-zəm

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: a former school of medical practice founded on experience without the aid of science or theory

: quackery, charlatanry

: the practice of relying on observation and experiment especially in the natural sciences

: a tenet arrived at empirically

: a theory that all knowledge originates in experience

empiricist

im-ˈpir-ə-sist

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noun

Examples of empiricism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The best approach to achieve this is to treat your project as a scientific experiment - to employ rationality and empiricism in the form of strategizing, running validation tests, and evaluating your results through KPIs in order to achieve your goals. —

Abdo Riani, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023 Why bother with empiricism at all? —

Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2020 But not everyone agrees with this emerging consensus, and a new wave of empiricism has emerged over the past decade. —

Jacob Beck, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023 An almost mystical entity, this incomprehensibly enormous number straddles the line between empiricism and belief. —

Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023 Homeopathy smacked down for misleading claims When magic and empiricism meet in Uganda children get their teeth removed with a sharpened bicycle spoke ? —

Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2013 The Times, in Naureckas’s portrayal, found Silver’s empiricism a threat to its own -- and journalism’s own -- solipsistic worldview. —

George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2013 But empiricism and artistry frequently start from the same place - an irrepressible urge to know more about the world. —

Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2016 But in The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science, the biologist Armand Marie Leroi argues that Aristotle nevertheless exemplified the empiricism that has since produced so many marvelous discoveries. —

Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2021 See More

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