What's the difference between empirical and empiricist?
Empirical
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.
(a.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(2) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(3) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
(4) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(5) Comparisons between predicted and observed results of studies using different coalition paradigms show considerable empirical support for the model.
(6) Though the concept of phase, known also as focus, is a very helpful notion, its empirical foundation is yet very weak.
(7) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
(8) The current work utilizes an empirical relationship between HbO2 saturation measurements and reflected light oximetry, which is consistent with the two-flux theory of Kubelka and Munk (Z.
(9) Energy conformational calculations on these compounds were also carried out using the empirical energy program called MOLMEC, in order to better understand how the 4-R substituents modulate receptor binding affinities and efficacies.
(10) The resultant scales were administered to a small sample for preliminary empirical testing.
(11) We conclude that the concept of the limbic system cannot be accepted on empirical grounds.
(12) Based on a large, ongoing empirical research effort to determine factors associated with the successful community adjustment of troubled adolescents leaving residential treatment, this paper focuses on multiple indicators of success measured at multiple points of time in the treatment process.
(13) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
(14) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(15) The similarities in methods of intervention found in the work of investigators of very different theoretical persuasion raise the possibility that most treatment methods owe more to empirical clinical experience than to their presumed derivation from a theoretical model.
(16) This study is directed toward the empirical elaboration of four of these issues as they relate to adjustment in the community.
(17) The Assyrian Empire, though it did fluctuate in strength, had gone down finally over six hundred years before this scene is set.
(18) In addition to a detailed description of the method, examples for its applications are given, including concomitant investigations of the same cells by empirical staining, immunostaining, and fluorescence histochemistry of biogenic monoamines; colocalization of multiple peptides to the same cells and corresponding specificity controls; three-dimensional reconstructions based upon immunostained serial semithin sections; quantitative (computer-assisted) determinations of immunoreactivities.
(19) The purpose of this study was to test an empirically based prediction model of school dropout on a sample of 137 juvenile delinquents, some who have dropped out and some who have remained in school.
(20) Comparison with other pinch strength studies established that although force magnitudes may be strongly influenced by specific experimental conditions, empirical relationships among different pinch forces are fairly stable and predictable.
Empiricist
Definition:
(n.) An empiric.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theorists and empiricists have suggested that males and females may address the identity task differently.
(2) The author suggests that the empiricist approach in biological psychiatry requires critical scrutiny in order to avoid tragic consequences, regarding the hazards both to patients arbittrarily exposed to lithium therapy, as well as to the scientific concept of disease as it is modified by those who wish to re-define disease, empirically, in terms of response to treatment.
(3) Zoellner's use of Helmholtz's arguments to advance and defend his spiritist views occasioned strong criticism of Helmholtz, affected careers and reputations of scholars in Berlin and Leipzig, and caused enduring controversy over the credibility of Helmholtz's empiricist theory of space perception.
(4) Following the evolution of the scientific world, nursing first embraced the logical empiricist perspective of discovering and knowing.
(5) This process should be extended by reviewing historical stages of development in empiricist and postempiricist philosophy.
(6) In the process, conventional empiricist criteria of reliability and validity are critiqued, and more appropriate concepts representing dimensions of adequacy in feminist research are presented.
(7) He evaluates prominent approaches to the problem of knowledge, particularly those of the "subjectivists" and "relativists," such as Schafer and Spence, and the "empiricists" and "inductivists," such as the proponents of DSM-III.
(8) "Empiricists" and "clinicians", in especial those in the field of psychoanalysis, have reached divergent views on the significance of early childhood experiences for neurotic affections in the adult.
(9) Spence's basic assumptions are classically empiricist and positivistic.
(10) However, empiricist "learning theories" of all types are far too weak to be useful in explaining either the final adult language or the precise timing of developmental processes.
(11) The functionalist approach of conventional epidemiology, characterized by an empiricist viewpoint, is being overcome by a more rigorous and analytical approach.
(12) 17.5 per cent fall within the category of traditional birth attendant, 50 per cent are trained empiricists and 11.6 per cent are non-trained empiricists.
(13) The history of lithium in medicine reveals a strictly empiricist approach to its use which has resulted in its varying popularity as a therapeutic treatment over the past century.
(14) Samuel George Morton, self-styled objective empiricist, amassed the world's largest pre-Darwinian collection of human skulls.
(15) The philosophical convictions of Hermann von Helmholtz and the empiricist psychology he developed have been extensively discussed in historical literature.
(16) These developed at a different pace in different countries, due, in each case, to the dominant philosophies of the time: the English empiricists; the French Enlightenment; the Italian and German schools of experimental neurophysiology.
(17) The empiricist theories of medical language commonly employed both by comparative ethnosemantic studies and by medical theory are unable to account for the integration of illness and the language of high medical traditions into distinctive social and symbolic contexts.
(18) Until the 18th century this disease was studied with interest and found a place in the books of several important authors, but in practice it was treated by empiricists and barbers.