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- In empiricism: Broader senses
…call a doctor an “Empiric” has been to call him a quack—a usage traceable to a sect of medical men who were opposed to the elaborate medical—and in some views metaphysical—theories inherited from the Greek physician Galen of Pergamum (129–c. 216 ce). The medical empiricists opposed to Galen preferred…
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