Empiricism

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience.

II. Empiricism ·noun The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.

III. Empiricism ·noun Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery.