non-empirical
adjective
(alsononempirical)uk/ˌnɒn.ɪmˈpɪr.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌnɑːn.emˈpɪr.ɪ.kəl/basedontheoryratherthan on what isexperiencedorseen:
Shebelievedthatsociologywas a non-empiricalfieldwhich muststudysocialactionusingpurelysubjectivemeans.
Theirmethodologywascriticizedas being non-empirical.
- The newsystemismeanttoofferacleanbreakfrom thehighlytheoretical, nonempiricaldiagnosticpracticesof the past.
- Scholars'preferenceforempiricalor non-empiricalmethodsofresearchdependsontheirbeliefsregardingthenatureofknowledge.
- Theexperimentissupposedto be a non-empirical,intuitiveenquiryinto how differentpeoplerespond.
Ideas, concepts and theories
- abstract
- afterthought
- anthropocentrism
- anti-Darwinian
- anti-Darwinism
- brainwave
- foundation stone
- great minds think alikeidiom
- hunch
- hypothesis
- idea
- ideologue
- nonconceptual
- nostrum
- opinion
- panspermia
- perception
- theory
- thinking
- trope