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n. The view that experience, especially of the senses, is the only source of knowledge.

n. Employment of empirical methods, as in science.

n. An empirical conclusion.

n. The practice of medicine that disregards scientific theory and relies solely on practical experience.

n. A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation.

n. A practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; the method or practice of an empiric.

n. The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.

n. Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery.

n. The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience.

n. The character of being empirical; reliance on direct experience and observation rather than on theory; empirical method; especially, an undue reliance upon mere individual experience.

n. In medicine, the practice of empirics; hence, quackery; the pretension of an ignorant person to medical skill.

n. The metaphysical theory that all ideas are derived from sensuous experience—that is, that there are no innate or a priori conceptions.

n. the application of empirical methods in any art or science

n. (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience

n. medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings

"One was a great rationalist, an apostle of individual liberty, an enemy of dogma and a believer in empiricism as the source of all knowledge; the other was a Mexican nun who lived her entire life in the closed, authoritarian society that was colonial empire of New Spain."

investigating    investigation    medical practice   

charlatanry    quackery   

relativism    secularism    naturalism    charlatanry    metaphysic