empirical English

Meaning empirical meaning

What does empirical mean?

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empirical Adjective

— If something is empirical, it is based on or can be checked by observation or experience. Simply because there is no empirical evidence to support this does not mean it's wrong. It simply means we haven't looked hard enough. This hypothesis has been challenged on both theoretical and empirical grounds.

empirical

— adjective derived from experiment and observation rather than theory an empirical basis for an ethical theory empirical laws empirical data an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known

— adjective (= empiric) relying on medical quackery empiric treatment

Synonyms empirical synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as empirical?

empirical English » English

empiric

experimental

objective

positive

experiential

tentative

pragmatic

observation

material

experiental

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Simple sentences

Empirical data is based solely on observation.

Movie subtitles

Empirical science leads to lack of faith.

A good empirical research scientist.

Be empirical.

Well, it's empirical, but you never know.

Empirical, I.

But judgment of any system of phenomena exists in any rational, metaphysical or epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself, or of the thing itself.

Empirical poppycock.

The truth, Senator, is that I deal solely in empirical data.

Empirical study.

She has a theory based on a little empirical knowledge and a lot of supposition.

The issue is metaphysical, not empirical.

In the absence of empirical data, how will you determine if he is real?

It is not an empirical matter. It is a matter of faith.

I believe you are reasoning by analogy, classifying things according to superficial observation rather than empirical evidence.

Now, empirical observation, an analytical mind and some common sense should get it open.

Empirical study. Monitor the subject.

Feeling great is hardly firm, empirical evidence.

So I said to myself, why not visit Dr. Bronx. and hertabernacle of empirical evidence?

It is not an empirical matter.

It is empirical data.

Soon its influence will extend beyond the tangible empirical world. and into the collective unconscious, where it will become even more powerful.

As a scientist I rely on empirical evidence, and in this matter I don't believe that there's data either way.

But judgment of any system or a priori relation of phenomena exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being or to be or to occur in the thing itself or of the thing itself.

I knew was empirical science.

Because I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data.

I suppose I can be a touch empirical at times.

I mean. an existential subject may not be an empirical one yet an empirical one may not be a rational one, right?

This is not empirical.

News and current affairs

Last October, McKinsey Global Institute published a major empirical report of Russian industry.

Similarly, central banks adopted monetarism with a fervor in the late 1970's and early 1980's, just as empirical evidence discrediting the underlying theories was mounting.

The reality is that our prescriptions often go beyond what can be supported by careful theoretical reasoning or empirical demonstration.

Not much, the empirical evidence suggests.

In the absence of empirical research, generalizations must be guesswork.

But, in my thinking and empirical research, this fashionable hypothesis cannot stand.

Empirical evidence indicates that these distortions in the market for services, which account for about two thirds of GDP, underlie most of the EU's productivity gap with the United States.

So, too, on the other side, did Hans van Delden, a Dutch nursing home physician and bioethicist who for the past 20 years has been involved in all of the major empirical studies of end-of-life decisions in his country.

A difference of opinion that rested on different judgments about how the world works, which could (and ultimately was) resolved by empirical research, you might say.

For this difference in means, tactics, and empirical judgments rested on top of deep gulf in Keynes's and Friedman's moral philosophy.

We have little empirical basis for judging rare events, so it is difficult to arrive at good estimates.

As for fiscal measures, the empirical evidence suggests that three-quarters of consumption is based on longer-term economic prospects, not short-run disposable income.

These studies provide empirical support for the idea that, like other psychological faculties of the mind, including language and mathematics, we are endowed with a moral faculty that guides our intuitive judgments of right and wrong.

How much faster is an empirical question.

Empirical evidence supports the idea that the success of a democracy depends on the openness of the underlying economic system at the time of political transition.

Empirical evidence supports this transition, and international human-rights obligations compel such a move.

But there is little empirical evidence that public-sector wages have a significant impact on private-sector wage growth.

We should leave the creationists to their hollow convictions and happily embrace the uncertainties inherent in a truly empirical approach to understanding the world.

The monetarist theory that justified narrowing central banks' responsibilities to inflation targeting had very little empirical backing when Friedman proposed it.

There is little empirical doubt about the positive impact of FDI inflows.

Empirical research also confirms the positive impact of EU structural funds on growth.