Experiential, completely based on experience; empirical
The meaning of this word seems simple, but its epochal significance is extraordinary. Its corresponding noun empiricism is the beginning of modern science. Empiricism is about trusting or paying attention to the evidence of observation, experiment and perception, not the deduction of theory and logic. So its antonym is theoretical.
There is no empirical evidence to support his argument.
There is no empirical evidence to support his argument.
Empirical evidence? Actual evidence
Empirical method? Empirical method
Empiricism is not based on personal experience, but more on objective observation and perceptible facts, which is relative to rationalism. The etymology of experience includes experience (empeiria), which may help you to understand the word better.
The reason why philosophy makes many people seven meat and eight vegetables is related to the fact that most of the definitions it chooses come from secular vocabulary. This is also the difficulty for us to master advanced vocabulary, and it is almost certainly wrong to look at the meaning.
Why did induction and empiricism suddenly appear in philosophy and science in the16th century, and the enlightenment that followed? Why did logic, deduction and rationalism, which started from Aristotle, take a stable road for two thousand years? Why does modern natural science really start from empiricism? Steven Johnson's How We Got to Today: Six Innovations in Remolding the World gives an interesting answer. In the first chapter of this book, he first introduced "glass". After thousands of years of development, this extremely accidental natural product has been discovered by human beings. /kloc-After Gutenberg printing machine was invented in the 6th century, suddenly, due to more and more myopia, the invention of glasses evolved. Decades later, the first microscope was invented, then there was a telescope, then there was Galileo, and then the story became more and more interesting. It makes sense to think about it. Without glasses and the instruments they support, we can't observe the familiar world in another way. Without observation, there is no intellectual evidence.
Einstein famously said:
Complete logical thinking cannot bring knowledge of the empirical world. All real-world knowledge begins with experience and ends with experience.
But his good friend, the famous mathematician and philosopher Kurt G?del said:
I don't believe in empirical science, I only believe in transcendental truth.
But Godel is no longer a deductive theorist full of nonsense in the Middle Ages. He is a real modern scientist and has proved the "incompleteness theorem" of the formal number theory system. His mathematical research results are one of the cornerstones of artificial intelligence technology today. So, I guess this sentence has nothing to do with Einstein.
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