Empiric vs Scientific - What's the difference?
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empirical
A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.
Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.
Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack.
*, New York Review, Books, 2001, p.257:
*:An empiric oftentimes, and a silly chirurgeon, doth more strange cures than a rational physician.
* 1661 , (Robert Boyle), , p.24:
*:Paracelsus and some few other sooty Empiricks , rather then (as they are fain to call themselves) Philosophers, having their eyes darken'd, and their Brains troubl'd with the smoke of their own Furnaces, began to rail at the Peripatetick Doctrine, which they were too illiterate to understand […].
* John Locke
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p.33:
*:To the disgust of doctors, the royal family at Versailles allowed one Brun, a wandering empiric […], to administer a proprietary ‘sovereign remedy’ to the ailing monarch.
Of, or having to do with science.
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Having the quality of being derived from, or consistent with, the scientific method.
In accord with procedures, methods, conduct and accepted conventions of modern science.
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As adjectives the difference between empiric and scientific
is that empiric is empirical while scientific is of, or having to do with science.As a noun empiric
is a member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.empiric
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Alternative forms
* empirick (obsolete)Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Swallow down opinions as silly people do empirics' pills.
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* scientifickAdjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
Scientific. Dictionary.com. May 22, 2011