Empirical

(adj.) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; 'an empirical basis for an ethical theory'; 'empirical laws'; 'empirical data'; 'an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known' .

校对:潘西

• Experience then ceases to be empirical and becomes experimental. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In the first place, there is the opposition of empirical and higher rational knowing. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• What is here insisted upon is the necessity of an actual empirical situation as the initiating phase of thought. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The word empirical in its ordinary use does not mean connected with experiment, but rather crude and unrational. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Empirical knowledge meant the knowledge accumulated by a multitude of past instances without intelligent insight into the principles of any of them. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It was all empirical enough; but that was the only way open even to the highest talent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Words like justice, harmony, power, democracy are simply empirical suggestions which may produce the good life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Try to judge the great beliefs that have swayed mankind by their inner logic or their empirical solidity and you stand forever, a dull pedant, apart from the interests of men. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The opening sentence shows Galileo's tendency to base theory o n the empirical. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• This empirical method may perhaps be better illustrated by a specific example. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Such was the essential meaning of the term empirical. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Herschel's Distinction of Empirical and Scientific Art. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The neglect of the deep-seated active and motor factors of experience is a fatal defect of the traditional empirical philosophy. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In a conversation with two old associates recently (April, 1909), he remarked: It has been said of me that my methods are empirical. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Purely empirical and physical things are often supposed to be known by receiving impressions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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