Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Hannibal Evans Lloyd (1771–1847), philologist and translator. After German empirisches Ich; compare earlier empirical self.
Definition of empirical ego in US English:
empirical ego
noun
Psychology Philosophy
= empirical self.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Hannibal Evans Lloyd (1771–1847), philologist and translator. After German empirisches Ich; compare earlier empirical self.