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Empiristic
adj
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Adjective
- 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 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 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."
Etymology
From empir(ic) + -istic.
See also for "empiristic"
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