non-theoretical
adjective
(alsonontheoretical)uk/ˌnɒn.θɪəˈret.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌnɑːn.θiː.əˈret̬.kəl/basedon thepracticaluses of asubject,ratherthan on atheoryortheories:
Archaeology used to beviewedaspurelya non-theoreticaldiscipline, but that is nolongertrue.
Theirapproachis non-theoretical in that it is notbasedon anyspecificeconomicmodel.
- At thistime,literarycriticismwasdecidedlynontheoretical andsubjective.
- Sheprioritizeddataovertheoryin her non-theoreticalapproachtoresearch.
- Developers need to beabletodemonstratenon-theoreticalapplicationsof thesoftware.
Logic and reason
- a fortiori
- a posteriori
- a priori
- analytic
- antinomy
- illogically
- incoherently
- inductive
- inductively
- intellectual
- non sequitur
- non-verbal
- nonscientific
- paradox
- paradoxical
- teleology
- theoretical
- theoretically
- theory
- thinking