EMPIRICISM
\ɛmpˈɪɹɪsˌɪzəm], \ɛmpˈɪɹɪsˌɪzəm], \ɛ_m_p_ˈɪ_ɹ_ɪ_s_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of EMPIRICISM
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
By Princeton University
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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.
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The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience.
By Noah Webster.
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One of the principal schools of medical philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome. It developed in Alexandria between 270 and 220 B.C., the only one to have any success in reviving the essentials of the Hippocratic concept. The Empiricists declared that the search for ultimate causes of phenomena was vain, but they were active in endeavoring to discover immediate causes. The "tripod of the Empirics" was their own chance observations (experience), learning obtained from contemporaries and predecessors (experience of others), and, in the case of new diseases, the formation of conclusions from other diseases which they resembled (analogy). Empiricism enjoyed sporadic continuing popularity in later centuries up to the nineteenth. (From Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p186; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Knowledge based on observation or practical experience; the practice of medicine without the usual medical training or experience; quackery.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(phil.) The system which, rejecting all a priori knowledge, rests solely on experience and induction: dependence of a physician on his experience alone without a regular medical education: the practice of medicine without a regular education: quackery.
By Daniel Lyons
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Quackery; unscientiflc experimenting.
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Philos. The doctrine that all knowledge is derived from experience through the senses.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Method or practice of an empiric; —a practice of medicine founded on a man’s own experience;—charlatanry; quackery.
By Thomas Sheridan
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