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Empirical vs Empiristic - What's the difference?

empirical | empiristic |

As adjectives the difference between empirical and empiristic

is that empirical is pertaining to or based on experience while empiristic is relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.

empirical

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to or based on experience.
  • * H. Spencer
    • The village carpenter lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship.
  • Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
  • (philosophy of science) Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.

    • Synonyms

    * empiric

    Antonyms

    * nonempirical

    Coordinate terms

    * conceptual * theoretical * anecdotal

    Derived terms

    * empirically

    Related terms

    * empiricism * empiricist

    See also

    * anecdotal evidence * trial and error

    External links

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    empiristic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (physics) Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.

    • Antonyms

    * nativistic (Webster 1913)