empiristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more empiristic
form: most empiristic
Etymology: From empir(ic) + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: In contradistinction, empiristic approaches show a macrostructural bias, measuring the relation between verbal action and its social stimuli by means of correlations.
ref: 1991, Rosita Rindler Schjerve, “Ethnolinguistic and interpretive concepts in explaining language shift”, in Jef Verschueren, editor, Levels of linguistic adaptation, page 226:
text: For the sake of completeness, we shall also mention the empiristic approach, which flourished primarily in Great Britain.
ref: 2012, Leen Streefland, Fractions in Realistic Mathematics Education, page 22:
text: Thus a new, empiristic approach is proposed, defining implication relations that are derived from data observation and with no regard to any preexisting contrains.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2018, Percy van Keulen, Willem Th. van Peursen, Corpus Linguistics and Textual History, page 5:
glosses: Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1914, Theodore De Laguna, Introduction to the Science of Ethics, page 199:
text: To be empiristic is to regard mind as entirely a product of experience.
ref: 1984, David Ballin Klein, The Concept of Consciousness: A Survey, page 25:
text: He did in fact seek to connect his empiristic theory of spatial perception wih an empiricist epistemology and an experimental scientific methodology;
ref: 1990, Gary Carl Hatfield, The Natural and the Normative, page 275:
text: 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.
ref: 2013, K Koffka, Principles Of Gestalt Psychology, page 210:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Involving or pertaining to learned (as opposed to innate) behavior.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1879, Mind - Volume 4, page 448:
text: And there have been conspicuous attempts in the history of philosophy, to guarantee a person of some sort through a purely empiristic epistemology.
ref: 1911, Jay William Hudson, The Treatment of Personality by Locke, Berkeley and Hume:
text: This kind of time-consuming studies of literatures tends to be ignored in more empiristic and positivist traditions.
ref: 2005, Birger Hjørland, “Empiricism, rationalism and positivism in library and information science”, in Journal of Documentation, volume 61, number 1:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Based on empiricism.