Empirical
[em'pɪrɪk(ə)l;ɪm-] or [ɪm'pɪrɪkl]
解释:
(adj.) 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' .
校对:潘西--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.
(a.) 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.
布丽奇特编辑
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Experimental, experiential, from experience (as distinguished from inference or reasoning).[2]. Charlatanic, quackish.
赛勒斯录入
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Experimental, tentative, {[quackif-h]?}
ANT:Scientific, regular, inductive, uniform, constant
编辑:特鲁迪
例句:
- Experience then ceases to be empirical and becomes experimental. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- In the first place, there is the opposition of empirical and higher rational knowing. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- What is here insisted upon is the necessity of an actual empirical situation as the initiating phase of thought. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The word empirical in its ordinary use does not mean connected with experiment, but rather crude and unrational. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Empirical knowledge meant the knowledge accumulated by a multitude of past instances without intelligent insight into the principles of any of them. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- It was all empirical enough; but that was the only way open even to the highest talent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Words like justice, harmony, power, democracy are simply empirical suggestions which may produce the good life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Try to judge the great beliefs that have swayed mankind by their inner logic or their empirical solidity and you stand forever, a dull pedant, apart from the interests of men. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The opening sentence shows Galileo's tendency to base theory o n the empirical. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- This empirical method may perhaps be better illustrated by a specific example. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Such was the essential meaning of the term empirical. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Herschel's Distinction of Empirical and Scientific Art. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The neglect of the deep-seated active and motor factors of experience is a fatal defect of the traditional empirical philosophy. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- In a conversation with two old associates recently (April, 1909), he remarked: It has been said of me that my methods are empirical. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Purely empirical and physical things are often supposed to be known by receiving impressions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
手打:洛葛仙妮