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Empirical
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What it means
- adjective
Pertaining to or based on experience, as opposed to theory.
“The lengths were calculated according to the empirical rules of the trade.”
- adjective
Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
- adjective
Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
“demonstrable with empirical evidence”
Where it comes from
Empirical comes from Greek empeiria, experience, through Latin empiricus. An empirical claim is one you can check against what happens.
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