Impirical knowledge is the antithesis of Empirical knowledge. Impirical knowledge is based off faith, logic, and understanding, it is the ultimate idea or understanding of a truth. An example would be the table; we understand the concept & characteristics of a table, we do not need to experience/observe every single table in the world so we can immediately recognize a table when we see one. Impirical is commonly misused instead of where Empirical should be used. Empirical is the physical manifestation, the observable and the experienced. Seeing the sun rise everyday for a week straight is Empirical knowledge because you have experienced it rising. Knowing the sun will come up tomorrow is Impirical knowledge, because you have not experienced it rising yet but still know it is going to because there is an understanding based off logic and reasoning applied to experience. A suitable comparison for further understanding would be the latin terms "a Priori" (as Impirical) and "a posteriori" (as Empirical).
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