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n.
Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
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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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Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
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The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism.
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The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
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By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
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An empiric.
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The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience.
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One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.
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Alt. of Empirical
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Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies.
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Obtained by trial, by measurements, etc.; approximate; empirical. See the 2d Note under Geometric.
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An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
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The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.
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One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
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A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
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The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.
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Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
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In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience.
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Relating to, or resulting from, experience, or experiment; following from empirical methods or data; -- opposed to nativistic.
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