Definition of empiric

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Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..

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Metempirical :: Metempirical (a.) Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics..
Transcendentalism :: Transcendentalism (n.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge..
Empiric :: Empiric (a.) Alt. of Empirica.
Empirical :: Empirical (a.) Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments..
Empiricist :: Empiricist (n.) An empiric.
Empirically :: Empirically (adv.) By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Charlatanical :: Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
Empirical :: Empirical (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..
Metempiric :: Metempiric (a.) Alt. of Metempirica.
Empiristic :: Empiristic (a.) Relating to, or resulting from, experience, or experiment; following from empirical methods or data; -- opposed to nativistic..
Trancscendental :: Trancscendental (a.) In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experienc
Rationalism :: Rationalism (n.) The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism..
Quackery :: Quackery (n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism..
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.
Empiricism :: Empiricism (n.) The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience.
Charlatan :: Charlatan (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank..
Metempirics :: Metempirics (n.) The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience..
Thomsonianism :: Thomsonianism (n.) An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts..
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..
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