based on experience, rather than scientific enquiry.
Based upon experimental observation, not calculated from a theoretical basis.
Guided by or derived from practical experience and observation rather than theory.
Based on the analysis of actual data or experience. A conclusion based on observation rather than speculation or deduction. Empirical studies are undertaken to test or to suggest a hypothesis.
Pertaining to or derived from experience or experiments.
received through the senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste), either directly or through extensions.
1. originating in or based on observation or experience. 2. relying on experience or observation alone, often without due regard for system or theory. 3. capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experience.
Factual or known through observation. Propositions or hypotheses may be subject to empirical or factual tests to determine whether observed facts are consistent with what is predicted.
or Empirical Testing: Meaning "after the fact" or "experimental," empirical testing involves actual "real-world" experiments to determine the outcome of component changes.
See a posteriori knowledge; Empirical positivism; Empirical theism; Radical empiricism; Empirical realism and Empirical theology
order by term] level: Comprehensive (3) That which is observable by experiment, not accepted as simply a theory.
level: Comprehensive (3) [ order by level] That which is observable by experiment, not accepted as simply a theory.
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"
knowledge derived through experiment and observations rather that theory.
Actual data. An empirical study is one that uses observations from the real world.
Having to do with experience or observation alone.
one of Kant's four main perspectives, aiming to establish a kind of knowledge which is both synthetic and a posteriori. Most of the knowledge we gain through ordinary experience, or through science, is empirical. 'This table is brown' is a typical empirical statement. (Cf. transcendental).
Derived from observation of experiment; usually connotes numerical records and analysis of those observations.
originating in or based on observation or experiment.
based on observation and experiment rather than pure reason; inductive.
Referring to, or based on, observations (data-gathering) of real world phenomena (as contrasted with abstract modelling or armchair speculation).
Determined by observation or experimentation.
Based on experimental data, not on a theory.
Pertaining to facts gained through sense perception.
(p. 16) Based on experience or observation. An empirical debate is one that can be answered with data
Based on experience or observational information not necessarily on proven scientific data.
an approach to knowledge based on what can be arrived at through sense experience.
Based on experience or observation rather than on reasoning alone.
Research and analysis based on experience or observational information rather than on thoughts or ideas.
Concerning or pertaining to data. In the context of this course, the relevant data have to do with the grammatical status or the interpretation of phrases and sentences). When you are asked to give an empirical argument, your argument must be based on judgments concerning phrases or sentences, not on purely conceptual considerations like simplicity, economy, theory-internal consistency, and so on.
Relying upon or derived from observation or experiment.
empirical refers to knowledge derived from observation or experience. It is often linked, wrongly, to empiricism which refers to a concentration on the observation and description of the world to the exclusion of theorising, except perhaps in the last instance, when all the facts are in (see the philosophy of Francis Bacon). The privileging of the empirical, as opposed to the theoretical aspect of research evident in empiricism is arguably contradictory; before researching one has to decide which facts/observations are relevant to collect, which implies some prior theory of the research object. Empirical also has particular meanings in some areas, for example, in medicine an empirical treatment is based on observed symptoms alone, rather than the results of some form of test.
Something that is based on actual measurement, observation, or experience rather than on theory.
Based on experiment and observation, or based entirely on practical experience.
An awkward adjective that can have contrary meanings in medicine. The word comes from the Greek for experience. On the one hand, empirical medical practice is that which is based only on observation and experiment (praiseworthy); on the other, it can refer to medical practice that's based on very personal experience without taking scientific principles into account (not praiseworthy); at worst it refers to treatment that's chosen on no other basis than: "Let's see if it might work".
Derived from experiment or observation.
Data or information obtained through experiment, experience, or observation, and which can be verified.
verifiable by means of observation or experiment on the real world, that is on things that can be touched, smelled, felt, seen, i.e., that can be measured
Pertaining to a statement or formula based upon experience or observation rather than on deduction or theory.
Based on observation or experimentation.
A central concept in science and the scientific method is that all evidence must be empirical, or empirically based, that is, dependent on evidence or consequences that are observable by the senses. That is, empirical data is data that is produced by experiment or observation.http://www.bartleby.com/61/71/E0117100.html The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
