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Empiristic

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Empiristic is an adjective meaning Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.

Meaning

Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.

More Meanings

  1. (psychology) Involving or pertaining to learned (as opposed to innate) behavior.
  2. (philosophy) Based on empiricism.

Example Sentences

To be empiristic is to regard mind as entirely a product of experience.
For the sake of completeness, we shall also mention the empiristic approach, which flourished primarily in Great Britain.
He did in fact seek to connect his empiristic theory of spatial perception wih an empiricist epistemology and an experimental scientific methodology;
Thus a new, empiristic approach is proposed, defining implication relations that are derived from data observation and with no regard to any preexisting contrains.

Antonyms for empiristic

Common opposites include nativistic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include empiriological, empirical, emperical, metempiric, imperical, metempirical.

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