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metempirical, a.|mɛtɛmˈpɪrɪkəl|
[f. meta- + empirical.]
Pertaining to matters outside the range of knowledge derived from experience. Also, of opinions and their advocates: Maintaining the validity of concepts and beliefs based otherwise than on experience.
1874Lewes Probl. Life & Mind Ser. i. I. 17 If then the Empirical designates the province we include within the range of Science, the province we exclude may fitly be styled the Metempirical. a1881A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric ii. (1883) 17 The simplest Metempirical assumption, and one made by every man, is that there is a Metempirical existence, that he and his own experience are not all that has ever existed. 1888Athenæum 11 Feb. 184 It appropriated for empiricism doctrines hitherto the special property of metempirical schools.
Hence metemˈpirically adv., in a metempirical sense or manner.
1884Spectator 2 Feb. 161 Every atom..is..‘metempirically’, as he [sc. Barratt] calls it—a centre of consciousness. |