Meaning of empiristic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.
2. Involving or pertaining to learned (as opposed to innate) behavior.
3. Based on empiricism.

Examples

“In contradistinction, empiristic approaches show⟳ a macrostructural bias, measuring the relation between verbal action and its social stimuli by means of correlations.”

“For the sake of completeness, we shall also mention⟳ the empiristic approach⟳, which flourished primarily in Great Britain.”

“Thus a new, empiristic approach⟳ is proposed, defining implication relations that are derived from data observation and with no regard to any preexisting contrains.”

“Much depends on the answer⟳ given to the question⟳ of how one can find⟳ a proper balance between a rule-based ('rationalistic') approach⟳ and a data-driven ('empiristic') approach⟳, and between a bottom-up and a top-down analysis.”

“An empiristic theory is a theory that some mental function, which is in question⟳, is not innate in us, but is acquired by each individual – say⟳ through the process⟳ of association.”

“To be empiristic is to regard mind⟳ as entirely a product of experience⟳.”

“He did in fact seek⟳ to connect⟳ his empiristic theory of spatial perception wih an empiricist epistemology and an experimental scientific methodology;”

“The empiristic reader, even if he feels the strength of these arguments, will not readily abandon his theory. For these arguments have⟳ failed to show⟳ why empiricism is such a popular doctrine; therefore the reader will not yet see⟳ explicitly how the new theory explains those particular facts or aspects of facts which make⟳ his empiricism so dear to him.”

“Nor, again, is Dr. Erdmann's view⟳ of the critical doctrine as mainly empiristic by any means an adequate representation of its varied philosophic character.”

“And there have⟳ been conspicuous attempts in the history of philosophy, to guarantee⟳ a person of some sort⟳ through a purely empiristic epistemology.”

“This kind of time-consuming studies of literatures tends to be ignored in more empiristic and positivist traditions.”

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