Adjective
Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.
Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEquality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group. Steven Pinker
The map is not the territory ... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map... Alfred Korzybski
Theory should be ever more demanding of our empirical resources. Simultaneously, data should be ever more demanding of the empirical relevance of theory and of the theorist's expertise in working imaginatively on problems of the world, rather than on stylized problems of the imagination. Vernon L. Smith
I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth. Kurt Gödel
The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which must be estimated in order to compare the predictions of the models with empirical results. Anatol Rapoport
There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature. African Spir