empiristic adjective3 •Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.In contradistinction, empiristic approaches show a macrostructural bias, measuring the relation between verbal action and its social stimuli by means of correlations. — 1991 •Involving or pertaining to learned (as opposed to innate) behavior.An empiristic theory is a theory that some mental function, which is in question, is not innate in us, but is acquired by each individual – say through the process of association. — 1914 •Based on empiricism.Nor, again, is Dr. Erdmann's view of the critical doctrine as mainly empiristic by any means an adequate representation of its varied philosophic character. — 1879 formsmore empiristic · most empiristic