empiristic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.
adj
Involving or pertaining to learned (as opposed to innate) behavior.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From empir(ic) + -istic.
Inflected Forms
more empiristic (comparative)
most empiristic (superlative)