Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: empirical
IPA transcription: [,ɛmp'ɪɹɪkəl]
Pronunciations of empirical
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: empirical, empiric
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • All principles which can be taken from this point of view are either empirical or rational.
  • An empirical relation is, however, known: it was suggested by Tatius, and published by Bode, of Berlin, in 1772.
  • Moreover, we feel some quality of necessity about the proposition 'two and two are four', which is absent from even the best attested empirical generalizations.
  • It must, therefore, be some planet outside the orbit of Uranus, and in all probability, according to Bode's empirical law, at nearly double the distance from the sun that Uranus is.
  • Physicians by the thousand, of course--frightfully clumsy brutes for the most part, and following one another like sheep--but doctors of the mind, except a few empirical flounderers there were none."
  • I am not speaking of judgements as to what is useful or as to what is virtuous, for such judgements do require empirical premisses; I am speaking of judgements as to the intrinsic desirability of things.
  • In regard to the former, deduction is the right mode of argument, whereas in regard to the latter, induction is always theoretically preferable, and warrants a greater confidence in the truth of our conclusion, because all empirical generalizations are more uncertain than the instances of them.
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