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empiric

/em-pir-ik/US // ɛmˈpɪr ɪk //UK // (ɛmˈpɪrɪk) //

经验性的,经验性,经验主义的,经验主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who follows an empirical method.
    • : a quack; charlatan.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : empirical.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The count considered Lincoln an “honest man of nature, perhaps an empiric, doctoring with innocent juices from herbs.”

  • Clemens never had any quarrel with the theory of Christian Science or mental healing, or with any of the empiric practices.

  • The theorist disdains experience—the empiric rejects principle.

  • The great intellectual forces of the nineteenth century allied themselves to two movements, the transcendental and the empiric.

  • The surplus labour of the latter is an empiric fact, demonstrable by experience, which needs no deductive proof.

  • To them both the physician and empiric owe part of their success.