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- adjective Going against what is
empirically true.
Etymologies
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anti- + empirical
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Examples
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John could have very well been using antiempirical language at the close of Revelation, in order to offer a final glimpse of the kingdom of God triumphing over Roman Empire, or any other empire for that matter which isn't build upon the teachings of the Jewish/Christian narrative.
Faith in Vane? James F. McGrath 2009
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The ancient Greeks achieved, in the end, only "nonempirical, even antiempirical, speculative philosophies; atheoretical collections of facts; and isolated crafts and technologies -- never breaking through to real science.
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