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Definition of By trial and error
1. Adverb. In an empirical manner. "This can be empirically tested"
Partainyms: Empirical
Antonyms: Theoretically
Lexicographical Neighbors of By Trial And Error
Literary usage of By trial and error
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book in the Principles of Education by Ernest Norton Henderson (1910)
"Learning as a process of inner reorganization Replacement of outer by inner
selection CHAPTER VII LEARNING by trial and error SECTION 23. ..."
2. Personnel Relations in Industry by Algie Martin Simons (1921)
"CHAPTER VI MENTAL AND TRADE TESTS Testing Ability by Trial and Error Ability to
produce is what is sought in selecting and adjusting the human as well as ..."
3. Experiments in Educational Psychology by Daniel Starch (1917)
"by trial and error, that is, by making random attempts until by chance some
attempts are successful. b. By imitation, that is, by observing the performance ..."
4. The Next Step: A Plan for Economic World Federation by Scott Nearing (1922)
"Trying Things Out A SOCIETY, like the individuals of which it is composed, learns
first by trial and error. The earliest lessons that the human race ..."
5. Contributions to the Study of the Behavior of Lower Organisms by Herbert Spencer Jennings (1904)
"The most important step in advance is that shown when the results of one reaction
by trial and error become the basis for a succeeding reaction. ..."
6. An Introduction to Experimental Psychology in Relation to Education by Charles Wilfred Valentine (1916)
"The experiment in mirror drawing illustrates what is perhaps the most fundamental
and elementary method of learning, viz, learning by trial and error, or, ..."
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