He felt empirical experience gained through constant handling of artifacts was more valuable than browsing any database.

It is a complicated, unstable mental construction cobbled together from empirical experience, fantasy and abstraction.

Bonhoeffer felt strongly that there is an empirical experience that results from meeting with others to become intimate before Christ.

Indeed, authority can stifle empirical experience which, so many times, has proven to have a sounder basis for accuracy.

"I have had empirical experience with time travel," Spock said.

In the early seventeenth century, however, the emphasis shifted from classical learning to empirical experience, such as knowledge of topography, history, and culture.

Systems were being proposed (especially transit systems) where no empirical experience of the type used in diversion curves was available.

But why should I, we have got over 40 years empirical experience, which should tell us why talking a lot about birth control has no effect.

This warning was based on empirical experience in which a patient had died after receiving blood from a sheep.

Laying in the vertical plane (elevation angle) uses data derived from trials or empirical experience.