Empiristic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    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."

  3. 3
    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."

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"In contradistinction, empiristic approaches show a macrostructural bias, measuring the relation between verbal action and its social stimuli by means of correlations."

Etymology

From empir(ic) + -istic.

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