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Empiricism

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medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings

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empiricist philosophyquackerysensationalism
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§1
medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
§2
the application of empirical methods in any art or science
§3
(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience

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