Empirical

//ɪmˈpɪɹɪkəl//

"Empirical" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Grammar is an empirical science, not a theoretical one.

As of yet there has been no empirical research done on this subject.

The empirical data from this experiment seems in line with the theoretical hypotheses.

"All humans are mortal" is an empirical observation based on millennia of experience.

Empirical data is based solely on observation.

He also discovered sunspots, the dark areas of the Sun. He saw that the planet Venus has light and dark phases just like the Moon. These discoveries provided empirical information that proved that the Sun is at the center of the Solar System, as Nicholas Copernicus had predicted.

We know from a century of empirical studies that community support and access to medical transition are the best things for the mental health of a trans person.

Is it "emotional blackmail" to say that people with depression would kill ourselves at a much higher rate if our medicine were taken from us by the state? Or is it just an empirical observation of the relative effectiveness of antidepressants?

In its more extreme variants, cis ideology can include denial of the empirical reality of intersex and transgender people.

Such a reply can only be given by a sociology which has arrived at scientific conclusions on the life-history of different types of society, and has risen above the empirical and merely interrogative point of view which, for want of a better, I have adopted in this address.

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The lengths were calculated according to the empirical rules of the trade.

For some presumptive diagnoses, empirical antibiotic therapy begins immediately, whereas specific antibiotic therapy must await the results of the culture and sensitivity test.

The village carpenter […] lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship.

demonstrable with empirical evidence

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