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Synonyms for empirically


Grammar : Adv
Spell : em-pir-i-kuhl
Phonetic Transcription : ɛmˈpɪr ɪ kəl



Définition of empirically

Origin :
  • 1560s, from empiric + -al (1).
  • As in experimentally : adv tentatively
Example sentences :
  • The life in each of us takes hold of it and answers it empirically.
  • Extract from : « Appearances » by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
  • As in other dreams, the empirically known sequence of events is ignored.
  • Extract from : « The Behavior of Crowds » by Everett Dean Martin
  • The only reason we ignore this fact is because it is empirically taken for granted.
  • Extract from : « Human Nature and Conduct » by John Dewey
  • Empirically, of course, an awareness of self accompanies most of our thinking.
  • Extract from : « On the Ethics of Naturalism » by William Ritchie Sorley
  • Here we have to determine the breadth of the ring in a new way, that is empirically.
  • Extract from : « New Theories in Astronomy » by Willam Stirling
  • These concepts have been reached didactically and empirically.
  • Extract from : « A Civic Biology » by George William Hunter
  • Shall we use the intellect philosophically, or shall we use it empirically?
  • Extract from : « The Positive Outcome of Philosophy » by Joseph Dietzgen
  • That is not only empirically false, but intrinsically irrational.
  • Extract from : « Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History » by Antonio Labriola
  • For it is of course only in phenomena that we can empirically cognize this continuity in the connection of times.
  • Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant
  • Consequently, an absolute cosmical limit is empirically, and therefore absolutely, impossible.
  • Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant

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