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(medicine, now chiefly historical) Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; folk medicine, quackery.

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empiricism

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empiricism

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(medicine, now chiefly historical) Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; folk medicine, quackery.

Japanese Meaning

経験に基づいた医学 ― 経験のみを根拠とし、科学的知識や原理に依らず行われる治療法（歴史的な文脈では民間療法や疑似医学ともみなされる）

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In the early modern era, many practitioners relied on empiricism, offering remedies based on anecdote rather than anatomical knowledge.

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近世では、多くの施術者が経験だけに基づく医療に頼り、解剖学的知識ではなく逸話に基づいた治療を行っていた。

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(medicine, now chiefly historical) Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; folk medicine, quackery.

Empiricism is not peculiar to Denmark; and I know of no way of rooting it out, though it be a remnant of exploded witchcraft, till the acquiring a general knowledge of the component parts of the human frame, become a part of public education.

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(philosophy) A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses. (Often contrasted with rationalism.)