empirical evidence

noun

Information (to support or refute a theory) supported by scientific experimentation or statistical analysis, involving testable observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.

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Meanings

nounempirical evidence (uncountable)
  1. uncountableInformation (to support or refute a theory) supported by scientific experimentation or statistical analysis, involving testable observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.

    String theory is considered the leading “theory of everything,” but there’s still no empirical evidence for it.

    2017 December 22, NATALIE WOLCHOVER, “String Theory”, in the Atlantic
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