metempirics

English

Etymology

From met- +‎ empirics.

Noun

metempirics (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet related to, the knowledge gained by experience.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “metempirics”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)