empiric

Anyway, I didn’t want to take any kind of sides in any dispute because I think it’s an empiric decision.

The therapy was ad hoc and empiric — guided more by desperation than by the recognition of an innate pathological process — but the hallucinations remitted and diminished.

“Our ultimate goal is to have clinicians utilize a test-and-treat algorithm so that you don’t have to use these empiric therapies,” Denver said.

Cinema is an emotional medium and the issue of police brutality at bottom an empiric problem — can an approach that embraces the former address the latter?

"And empiric research suggests higher copays lead to treatment delays or discontinuation," he added.