Lore Lucid Lexicon empirical
16th century, originally in medicine, "pertaining to or derived from experience or experiments"
from Latin empiricus "a physician guided by experience"
from Greek empeirikos "experienced"
Compare empiric
first-hand, direct, observed, practical, actual, factual, experiential
Empiricism is reliance on direct experience and observation rather than on theory. In its essence (see empiric), a lovely idea however, in this form, it is still an ism, which is a system or a doctrine. Isms add additional ideas around the essence, thus erecting a construct. Over time, that construct becomes a separate entitity, independent of the essence that birthed it.
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |
