ALL meanings of empirical
- noun empirical Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic. 1
- adjective empirical from experience 1
- adjective empirical practical, not theoretical 1
- adjective empirical Empirical evidence or study relies on practical experience rather than theories. 0
- adjective empirical derived from or relating to experiment and observation rather than theory 0
- adjective empirical (of medical treatment) based on practical experience rather than scientific proof 0
- adjective empirical (of knowledge) derived from experience rather than by logic from first principles 0
- adjective empirical (of a proposition) subject, at least theoretically, to verification 0
- adjective empirical of or relating to medical quackery 0
- noun empirical the posterior probability of an event derived on the basis of its observed frequency in a sample 0
- adjective empirical relying or based solely on experiment and observation rather than theory 0
- adjective empirical relying or based on practical experience without reference to scientific principles 0