empirikos
Empirikos, from the Greek ἐμπειρικός (empeirikos), means “empirical” or “based on experience.” In historical contexts it describes a person or approach that relies on experience and observation rather than theoretical speculation about hidden causes. The term is closely associated with the Empirics, a school of medicine in ancient Greece and Rome known as the Empiricists (Empirikoi).
The Empiric school emerged in the Hellenistic period and held that knowledge of disease derives from examination
The movement stood in opposition to more theory-driven, dogmatic medical traditions, such as those associated with
In modern usage, empirikos retains its sense as “empirical,” describing methods grounded in observation and experience