Definition of empiric

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Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..

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Empiristic :: Empiristic (a.) Relating to, or resulting from, experience, or experiment; following from empirical methods or data; -- opposed to nativistic..
Rationalism :: Rationalism (n.) The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism..
Metempirical :: Metempirical (a.) Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics..
A Posteriori :: A posteriori () Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical.
Charlatanical :: Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
Empiricist :: Empiricist (n.) An empiric.
Empirical :: Empirical (a.) Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies..
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..
Quackery :: Quackery (n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism..
Empirical :: Empirical (a.) Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments..
Metempiric :: Metempiric (a.) Alt. of Metempirica.
Empirically :: Empirically (adv.) By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
Empiricism :: Empiricism (n.) The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience.
Empiric :: Empiric (a.) Alt. of Empirica.
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Mechanical :: Mechanical (a.) Obtained by trial, by measurements, etc.; approximate; empirical. See the 2d Note under Geometric..
Unempirically :: Unempirically (adv.) Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
Metempiricism :: Metempiricism (n.) The science that is concerned with metempirics.
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.
Metempirics :: Metempirics (n.) The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience..
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