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Dogmatic :: Dogmatic (n.) One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.

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..

Metempiricism :: Metempiricism (n.) The science that is concerned with metempirics.

Empiricism :: Empiricism (n.) The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.

Quackery :: Quackery (n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism..

Metempirics :: Metempirics (n.) The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience..

Empiricism :: Empiricism (n.) The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience.

Empiristic :: Empiristic (a.) Relating to, or resulting from, experience, or experiment; following from empirical methods or data; -- opposed to nativistic..

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..

Metempiric :: Metempiric (a.) Alt. of Metempirica.

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

Empiricist :: Empiricist (n.) An empiric.

Metempirical :: Metempirical (a.) Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics..

Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.

Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

Charlatan :: Charlatan (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank..

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..

Empirical :: Empirical (a.) Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments..

Charlatanical :: Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.

Transcendentalism :: Transcendentalism (n.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge..

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