In the first case the militaryempiric may be equal to the occasion; the second case demands imperatively a scientifically educated General and a staff who have also studied and mastered for themselves the nature of modern warfare.
It denies the difference between the empiric and the intelligible Ego, which is the basis of the notion of moral freedom.
At that time, to be sure, I had a presentiment that there must be some way of reconciling the rationalistic and the empiric theory of knowledge, but I did not yet know Herpert Spencer's simple solution of the problem.
The work in the woods fell naturally to the share of the huntsmen and forest guards, who by their practical life in the woods had secured some wood lore and developed some technical detail upon empiric basis.
Nowhere is the record of experience and the historic method of study of more value than in an empiric art like forestry, in which it takes decades, a lifetime, nay a century to see the final effects of operations.
They deserve credit, however, for having collected into encyclopædic volumes the empiricknowledge of the practitioners or Holzgerechten, and for having elaborated it more or less successfully.
If even Plato on the whole proceeded in an empiric way, taking up this and that idea, each of which is in turn examined, with Aristotle this loose method of procedure appears still more clearly.
It may thus be said that Epicurus is the inventor of empiric Natural Science, of empiric Psychology.
Scepticism is not anempiric matter such as this, for it contains a scientific aim, its tropes turn on the Notion, the very essence of determinateness, and are exhaustive as regards the determinate.
Yet if, on the one hand, what is physical in Aristotle is mainly philosophic and not experimental, he yet proceeded in his Physics in what may be called an empiric way.
Grecian physician of theempiric sect, who probably flourished in the first half of the third century of the Christian era.
Their possessing a special empiric knowledge of this or that domain of zoology or botany, is not sufficient; they must possess a general insight into the whole series of phenomena, at least in the case of one of the three organic kingdoms.
On the agencies enumerated there rests the entire empiric world.
It is hardly surprising that their empiric use has failed to measure up to expectations based on so slim a foundation of fact.
The results of these researches are additional evidence as to how scientific research may confirm or deny conclusions based on empiric therapeutic observations.
In its empiric confidence and copiousness as well as in its empiric inadequacy and want of method the Varronian vividly reminds us of the English national philology, and just like the latter, finds its centre in the study of the older drama.
The empiric seer is surrounded by the paraphernalia of his profession; a crocodile is suspended to the ceiling, above a mystic string of orbs, and the globes have an uncanny black cat perched thereon, a witch at the least.
Objection 1: It would seem that in Christ there was no empiric and acquired knowledge.
Therefore there was in the soul of Christ an empiric knowledge, which is acquired knowledge.
Jesus advanced in empiric knowledge, as in age, as stated above (A.
But if we speak of Him with respect to empiric knowledge, wonder could be in Him; and He assumed this affection for our instruction, i.
Yet things could be new and unwonted with regard to His empiric knowledge, in regard to which new things could occur to Him day by day.
Whether Christ Knew All Things by This Acquired or Empiric Knowledge?
He could do all things by the Divine power, for with respect to this there was no wonder in Him, but only with respect to His human empiric knowledge, as was said above.
Although Christ was ignorant of nothing, yet new things might occur to His empiric knowledge, and thus wonder would be caused.
Of the Acquired orEmpiric Knowledge of Christ's Soul 13.
Further, by empiric knowledge Christ did not know everything from the beginning, but advanced in it, as was said above (A.
In place of the general statements of the educated practitioner of medicine, the empiric encourages the drooping hopes of his patient by narrating in detail the minute particulars of analagous cases in which his skill has brought relief.
Dorchester, where as a young man he endeavoured to establish himself in practice, refused to give him an income, but it doubtless maintained more than one dull empiric in opulence.
What would not Read (we do not mean theempiric oculist knighted by Queen Anne, but the cancer quack of our own time) give to have such a list of aristocratic supporters?
Queen Anne's weak eyes caused her to pass from one empiric to another, for the relief they all promised to give, and in some cases even persuaded that they gave her.
An uproar immediately ensued; and there was an almost universal cry from the intelligent people of the country, that the empiric should be punished.
Rawleigh inquired whether the empiric knew of any preparation which could make him look ghastly, without injuring his health.
The French empiric was sounded, and found very compliant; Rawleigh was desirous by his aid to counterfeit sickness, and for this purpose invented a series of the most humiliating stratagems.
Hence it comes to pass, that where some ignorant person hath cured accidentally a slight disease, and a Physician hath a Patient dye of an irrecoverable Case, here the Empiric shall be applauded, and the Physician decryed.
It stands ready to-day to accept anything from any theorist, from any empiric who can make out a good case for his discovery or his remedy.
It rested upon the "Empiric tripod," namely, accident, history and analogy.
Among these, Serapion of Alexandria, an Empiric who lived in the third century before Christ, is noteworthy for having first used sulphur in the treatment of skin diseases, and Heraclides wrote on strangulated hernia.
It gives us a somewhat strange sensation to learn that Proudhon, the father of Anarchism, made these sociological studies in the Bible; and this Book of books is even to-day the most important source of empiric sociology.
But Proudhon transposed into this purely empiricidea a moral element, by presupposing equality and justice as necessary to exchange.
Various herbal decoctions were employed, and though these were used entirely on empiric grounds, some at least of them have continued in use with no better reason for their employment during most of the centuries since.
We have stuck too much to our empiric data, have not made the necessary deductions from it.
Our advance in knowledge is purely empiric unless it is directly dependent on formulation.
A more definite empiric knowledge, and the harmonious classification of specific types with a view to unity, are a proof of a relatively greater improvement, both in civilization and morality.
He particularly does not, like Lang, limit the moral order of the world to the simple empiric causal connection between human action and its consequences.
We have several of them; one starts from the idea of God, others from the empiric created world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "empiric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
