empiristic
empiristic adjective: relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.
Adjective
empiristic (comparative more empiristic, superlative most empiristic)
- Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.
- In contradistinction, empiristic approaches show a macrostructural bias, measuring the relation between verbal action and its social stimuli by means of correlations.1991, Rosita Rindler Schjerve, “Ethnolinguistic and interpretive concepts in explaining language shift”, in Jef Verschueren, editor, Levels of linguistic adaptation, page 226
- For the sake of completeness, we shall also mention the empiristic approach, which flourished primarily in Great Britain.2012, Leen Streefland, Fractions in Realistic Mathematics Education, page 22
- Involving or pertaining to learned (as opposed to innate) behavior.
- An empiristic theory is a theory that some mental function, which is in question, is not innate in us, but is acquired by each individual – say through the process of association.1914, Theodore De Laguna, Introduction to the Science of Ethics, page 199
- To be empiristic is to regard mind as entirely a product of experience.1984, David Ballin Klein, The Concept of Consciousness: A Survey, page 25
- Based on empiricism.
- Nor, again, is Dr. Erdmann's view of the critical doctrine as mainly empiristic by any means an adequate representation of its varied philosophic character.1879, Mind - Volume 4, page 448
- And there have been conspicuous attempts in the history of philosophy, to guarantee a person of some sort through a purely empiristic epistemology.1911, Jay William Hudson, The Treatment of Personality by Locke, Berkeley and Hume
Examples of empiristic in a sentence
- Thus a new, empiristic approach is proposed, defining implication relations that are derived from data observation and with no regard to any preexisting contrains.2018, K. Mattas, B. K. Papadopoulos, “Fuzzy Empiristic Implication, A New Approach”, in Nicholas J. Daras, Themistocles M. Rassias, editor...
- He did in fact seek to connect his empiristic theory of spatial perception wih an empiricist epistemology and an experimental scientific methodology;1990, Gary Carl Hatfield, The Natural and the Normative, page 275:
- The empiristic reader, even if he feels the strength of these arguments, will not readily abandon his theory.2013, K Koffka, Principles Of Gestalt Psychology, page 210:
- This kind of time-consuming studies of literatures tends to be ignored in more empiristic and positivist traditions.2005, Birger Hjørland, “Empiricism, rationalism and positivism in library and information science”, in Journal of Documentation, volume 61...
Antonyms of empiristic
Forms of empiristic
| comparative | more empiristic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most empiristic |
Origin of empiristic
From empir(ic) + -istic.
Questions about empiristic
- What does empiristic mean?
- Empiristic means relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.
- How do you use empiristic in a sentence?
- Thus a new, empiristic approach is proposed, defining implication relations that are derived from data observation and with no regard to any preexisting contrains.
- What part of speech is empiristic?
- Empiristic is an adjective.
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