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empirical

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Adjective

relying on medical quackery
- empiric treatment

derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
- an empirical basis for an ethical theory
- empirical laws
- empirical data
- an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known

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Antonyms:
theoretical theoretic

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