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you mean empirical?
Everything in technology (modern or not) is gained through science.
Venus goes through phases similar to those of Earth's moon.
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An atom that has gained an electron becomes a negatively charged ion.
You think probable to a theory.
Empirical Evidence in gained through observation.
you mean empirical?
"Firsthand knowledge" is knowledge gained through direct experience or observation.
It is knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation or experimentation
Empirical research is a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct observation or experience. Empirical evidence (the record of one's direct observations or experiences) can be analyzed quantitatively or qualitatively. Through quantifying the evidence or making sense of it in qualitative form, a researcher can answer empirical questions, which should be clearly defined and answerable with the evidence collected. Research design varies by field and by the question being investigated.Empirical evidence is gained by direct or indirect observation and experience.
Most sciences require empirical evidence (that which is gained from physical interaction and observation), philosophy does not. While empirical evidence effects philosophy. philosophy does not impact the empirical sciences (Chemistry, Biology, etc...)
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The word empirical denotes information gained by means of observation, experience, or experiment.
Because it is the most basic way of descriping the world.
Mapp vs. Ohio
One definition for science is the systematic knowledge of the material or physical world gained through observation and experimentation. If you take the simplest technology, for example the wheel or a lever, it was observation of a phenomenon ( rolling for instance) that let to experimentation which turned the rolling rock into a wheel or the stick into a lever. The observation and experimentation (science)came before the actual wheel (technology).