empiriological

adjective

em·​pir·​io·​logical

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: emphasizing or based on procedures that are both logical and empirical (such as those employing mathematics and experiments)

empiriological in contrast to ontological methods

Word History

Etymology

French empiriologique, from empirio- + logique logical, from Latin logicus

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