Empirical is valid Scrabble Word

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9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for EMPIRICAL in dictionary:

NOUN:

in statistics, the posterior probability of an event
posterior probability of an event derived on the basis of its observed frequency in a sample

ADJECTIVE:

relying on or derived from observation or experiment; guided by practical experience rather than theory, also EMPIRIC
based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic
relying on experiment or experience, not on theory
Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.
Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies.
derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
relying on medical quackery

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

originating in or based on observation or experience

Words related to EMPIRICAL

empirically20 empiricalness19 empiricals16 empiricutic19

Words that contain EMPIRICAL

empiricals16 empirically20 unempirical17 metempirical20 nonempirical18 empiricalness19 semiempirical21 unempirically22 metempirically25 empiricalnesses21

How to use EMPIRICAL in a sentence

The knowledge of them at first could not fail to be empirical and precarious.
On the first is based the distinction between the rational and the empirical or historical method of treatment.
Then the Science of Knowledge brought into prominence the positive, boldly conquering side, the investigation of the conditions of empirical knowledge.
He learns also a few empirical maxims about liberty and caution and the like, and, after he has read a little of the history of institutions, his political education is complete.
It is your own empirical generalization, and it is correct.
You cannot, for so held, it proves not to be concrete at all, but an arbitrary extract or abstract which you have made from the remainder of empirical reality.
But he aimed at being something far greater than an empirical reporter, so I must say something about that essential aspect of his thought.
I have hitherto avoided that dangerous and empirical morality, which cures one vice by means of another.
His examination of the alleged impossibility of miracles may be described as a very subtle turning the tables on Hume and the empirical philosophy.
But the master craftsman had gained his conception of child life from intimate, empirical acquaintance with the genus boy.

In painting, the necessity for scientific information, empirical if not rational, is still more conspicuous.
Scientific conceptions are to precede empirical experiences.
In fact, it is to India very much what Esperanto might be to Europe, only it is more empirical, and not so consciously and scientifically worked out.
It is false science thus to limit the modes of being to what lies within our present empirical knowledge.
He knows nothing of an empirical union of the different communities into one Church guaranteed by any law or office.
His method was empirical, and the laws which he established were generally the result of repeated experiment.
The margin of uncertainty which must be met by empirical allowances on the side of safety has been steadily diminished.
ON EXAMPLES EXAMPLES from history make everything clear, and furnish the best description of proof in the empirical sciences.
What you had taken for reality is but its cross-section - so does this empirical realm stand to the higher world of your spirit, even as a plane to a solid.
The remedies to be applied, though absolutely empirical and without hope, depended on the verdict in this medical dilemma.
Distinguishes between the empirical and the rational mode of treating Ethics.
Gentlemen, that is empirical practice, and you know what are the results upon the watch.
There remained, however, a sense that this empirical truth was somehow insufficient and illusory.
In spite of verbal traditions, people seldom take a myth in the same sense in which they would take an empirical truth.
This latter question is scientific and empirical, and should be treated as such.
Empirical idealists, on the contrary, in making a metaphysics out of psychology, hardly know what they do.

Similar words containing PIRIC without suffix al and without prefix em

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