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What does empirically mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word empirically? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. Based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.
  2. (sciences) Based on data gathered in the real world.
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We certainly don't think of relationships as tangible, as empirically demonstrable entities.
I think most doctors would empirically give antibiotics for both staph and gonococcus, but apparently for this exam, that would be wrong.
Second, productivity calculations measure inputs and outputs in ways that are conceptually and empirically problematic.
No survey so far has empirically verified higher biasedness amongst corporate leaders than amongst shop-floor workers.
The empirically observed mutations are thus neither favored nor disfavored by natural selection.
In the final calculus of course, these are issues that are best settled empirically.

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