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  • 1. empirically
  • Rhymes with Empirically
  • Empirically in a sentence
  • Quotes about Empirically
Table of Contents
  • 1. empirically
  • Rhymes with Empirically
  • Empirically in a sentence
  • Quotes about Empirically
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Etymology

1. empirically

adverb. ['ɛmˈpɪrɪkəli, ɛmˈpɪrɪkli'] in an empirical manner.

Synonyms

  • by trial and error

Etymology

  • -ly (English)
  • -lice (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
  • empirical (English)
  • -al (English)

Rhymes with Empirically

  • lyrically

Sentences with empirically


1. Adverb
Economists use a mathematical equation model known as a production function to study production empirically.

Quotes about empirically


1. Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

2. The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion.
- Gareth J. Nelson

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