empirical
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- a 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 - a relying on medical quackery
- The experiment gave an empirical evidence to the scientists that there was a fault in the structure.
- And recent empirical research some of it by Christina Romer, the University of California, Berkeley, economist who will be chairwoman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers .
- We've started to make science and empirical evidence not nearly as important as punditry--people using p.