Relating to material or worldly matters, earthly; (of a school of philosophy) based on matters of fact, empirical; naturalistic; (also) base…

Chiefly depreciative. Of, relating to, or characteristic of scientism (scientism, n. 2).

Philosophy. Relating to or concerned with a discoverable scientific or logical law; not contingent.

Making use of or consisting in the testing of the consequences of hypotheses (i.e. seeing whether the consequences are consistent with…

Of or relating to essentialism (in its various senses).

Of, pertaining to, or employing inductivism or inductive methods; implying that the method of science is inductive.

That may be tested or tried; spec. in Philosophy of Science, of a theory: capable of being empirically tested. (In quot. 1647 apparently ‘That on…

Adhering to observationalism; practising observational as opposed to theoretical work; (also, more generally) using observation as a principal…

Dealing with questions which lie outside the scope of scientific inquiry; of or relating to metascience.