0 a person who believes in using methods based on what is experienced or seen rather than on theory:
The principal division among economists is between the empiricists and the theoreticians.
1 believing in or using methods based on what is experienced or seen rather than on theory:
The new administration is more flexible, more empiricist, more imaginative, and less ideologically driven.
To say the debate is between theorists and empiricists is to oversimplify.
The mayor became an innovative pragmatist, an empiricist who leaned on new technologies to help dramatically reduce crime.
Jung was an empiricist, and in that respect he was also a scientist.
Her empiricist training left a mark - she comes over as someone who prefers facts to opinions.
Empiricist thinkers recognized the link between metaphoric imagination and scientific induction.
