# empiristic
## English
### Etymology

From empir(ic) +‎ -istic.

### Adjective

empiristic (comparative more empiristic, superlative most empiristic)
* Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.
** 1991, Rosita Rindler Schjerve, “Ethnolinguistic and interpretive concepts in explaining language shift”, in Jef Verschueren, editor, Levels of linguistic adaptation, page 226:In contradistinction, empiristic approaches show a macrostructural bias, measuring the relation between verbal action and its social stimuli by means of correlations.
** 2012, Leen Streefland, Fractions in Realistic Mathematics Education, page 22:For the sake of completeness, we shall also mention the empiristic approach, which flourished primarily in Great Britain.
** 2018, K. Mattas, B. K. Papadopoulos, “Fuzzy Empiristic Implication, A New Approach”, in Nicholas J. Daras, Themistocles M. Rassias, editor, Modern Discrete Mathematics and Analysis, page 328:Thus a new, empiristic approach is proposed, defining implication relations that are derived from data observation and with no regard to any preexisting contrains.
** 2018, Percy van Keulen, Willem Th. van Peursen, Corpus Linguistics and Textual History, page 5: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.
* (psychology) Involving or pertaining to learned (as opposed to innate) behavior.
** 1914, Theodore De Laguna, Introduction to the Science of Ethics, page 199: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.
** 1984, David Ballin Klein, The Concept of Consciousness: A Survey, page 25:To be empiristic is to regard mind as entirely a product of experience.
** 1990, Gary Carl Hatfield, The Natural and the Normative, page 275:He did in fact seek to connect his empiristic theory of spatial perception wih an empiricist epistemology and an experimental scientific methodology;
** 2013, K Koffka, Principles Of Gestalt Psychology, page 210:The empiristic reader, even if he feels the strength of these arguments, will not readily abandon his theory. For these arguments have failed to show why empiricism is such a popular doctrine; therefore the reader will not yet see explicitly how the new theory explains those particular facts or aspects of facts which make his empiricism so dear to him.
* (philosophy) Based on empiricism.
** 1879, Mind - Volume 4, page 448:Nor, again, is Dr. Erdmann's view of the critical doctrine as mainly empiristic by any means an adequate representation of its varied philosophic character.
** 1911, Jay William Hudson, The Treatment of Personality by Locke, Berkeley and Hume:And there have been conspicuous attempts in the history of philosophy, to guarantee a person of some sort through a purely empiristic epistemology.
** 2005, Birger Hjørland, “Empiricism, rationalism and positivism in library and information science”, in Journal of Documentation, volume 61, number 1:This kind of time-consuming studies of literatures tends to be ignored in more empiristic and positivist traditions.

#### Antonyms

* nativistic

### Anagrams

* empiricist