noun. Use of empirical or experimental methods in determining the validity of ideas.

noun. That philosophy which regards observation of fact as affording the only assurance of positive truth, as distinguished from mere mathematical truth; the philosophy which was naturally developed out of the prosecution of the experimental sciences; the school of English philosophy of Locke, Berkeley, Hartley, the Mills, and others, together with Hume.

noun. Experimental research in some branch of science.

noun. an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles.

noun. an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation.

noun. An experimental practice or tendency, especially in the arts

noun. An empirical or pragmatic approach which emphasizes the importance of experimentation

noun. an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation

noun. an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles

"As for the discussions within experimentalism itself, one finds a reprise of the same old back-and-forth about romanticism (though keyed to standards of sophistication now often taken from recent theoretical discourse rather thanas was once the casefrom modernist poetry): Is the lyric-romantic legacy simplistic or complex?"

experimental  experimentally  

empiricism  empiricist philosophy  orientation  sensationalism  

backbeat  calisthenics  characterisation  charlatanism  clamouring  

experiment