Erudition vs Empirical - What's the difference?
erudition | empirical |
Profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship.
Pertaining to or based on experience.
* H. Spencer
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.
As a noun erudition
is erudition.As an adjective empirical is
pertaining to or based on experience.erudition
English
(wikipedia erudition)Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (profound knowledge) knowledge, information, learning, lore, scholarship, scholarismExternal links
* * *empirical
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Adjective
(-)- The village carpenter lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship.