empiristic

adj

1. Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.

   “In contradistinction, empiristic approaches show a macrostructural bias, measuring the relation between verbal action and its social stimuli by means of correlations.”

   “For the sake of completeness, we shall also mention the empiristic approach, which flourished primarily in Great Britain.”

   “Thus a new, empiristic approach is proposed, defining implication relations that are derived from data observation and with no regard to any preexisting contrains.”

   “Much depends on the answer given to the question of how one can find a proper balance between a rule-based ('rationalistic') approach and a data-driven ('empiristic') approach, and between a bottom-up and a top-down analysis.”

2. Involving or pertaining to learned (as opposed to innate) behavior.

   “An empiristic theory is a theory that some mental function, which is in question, is not innate in us, but is acquired by each individual – say through the process of association.”

   “To be empiristic is to regard mind as entirely a product of experience.”

   “He did in fact seek to connect his empiristic theory of spatial perception wih an empiricist epistemology and an experimental scientific methodology;”

   “The empiristic reader, even if he feels the strength of these arguments, will not readily abandon his theory. For these arguments have failed to show why empiricism is such a popular doctrine; therefore the reader will not yet see explicitly how the new theory explains those particular facts or aspects of facts which make his empiricism so dear to him.”

3. Based on empiricism.

   “Nor, again, is Dr. Erdmann's view of the critical doctrine as mainly empiristic by any means an adequate representation of its varied philosophic character.”

   “And there have been conspicuous attempts in the history of philosophy, to guarantee a person of some sort through a purely empiristic epistemology.”

   “This kind of time-consuming studies of literatures tends to be ignored in more empiristic and positivist traditions.”