每日一词 empirical

【每日一词 empirical】 empirical - adj. based on what is experienced or seen rather than on theory 以经验（或实验）为依据的；经验主义的；来自经验(或观察)的；

Definition: adj.
1: originating in or based on observation or experience
empirical data
2: relying on experience or observation alone often without due regard for system and theory
an empirical basis for the theory
3: capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment
empirical laws
4: of or relating to empiricism

Synonyms
existential,experiential,experimental,objective,observational

Example Sentences
1 Eventually, access to electron microscopes and X-ray diffraction technology provided the necessary empirical evidence to test the hypotheses, and the jigsaw pieces began to fall into place. —Gail Nichols, Ceramics Monthly, February 2002
2 No religion, new or old, is subject to empirical proof, so what we have is a contest between faiths. —Harvey Cox, Atlantic, March 1999
3 They collected plenty of empirical data from their experiments.
4 guidelines for raising children that are based on empirical evidence
5 Yet the very attempt to construct value-neutral scientific authority over the organization of social life inspired a new class of experts—managers in both government and the private sector—who claimed to offer policy prescriptions grounded in empirical fact. —Jason Blakely, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
6 Most of us don’t reach our opinions by fastidious calibration of empirical evidence. —David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
7 Although Oppenheimer represented the idealist wing, who thought development of the bomb might lead to some good end, many of the physicists justified their work on purely empirical grounds. —Longreads, 20 July 2023