Empirical
[adj] derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical data"; "an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known"
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a posteriori, confirmable, data-based, existential, experiential, experimental, falsifiable, model(a), observational, pilot(a), semiempirical, test(a), trial(a), trial-and-error, verifiable
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animist, animistic, atomistic, cosmotheistic, cut-and-try, Cyrenaic, eclectic, Eleatic, Epicurean, eudaemonistic, existential, experiential, experimental, factual, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, heuristic, hit-or-miss, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, in