empiricism

[ US /ɛmˈpɪɹəˌsɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /ɛmpˈɪɹɪsˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the application of empirical methods in any art or science
  2. medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
  3. (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
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How To Use empiricism In A Sentence

  • [105] Empiricism ” that is, a posteriori investigations, based on actual facts and not a priori deductions from theories, or general laws, did good service before Froebel's time, and will do good service yet, Froebel notwithstanding. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel
  • If one is antecedently committed to empiricism, it may seem a manifestation of the appropriately intimate connection between the aesthetic character of a work and the value of the experience that the work affords. The Concept of the Aesthetic
  • We did not condemn empiricism outright, merely its substitution for reality.
  • One of the amusing things about empiricism is that it makes the having of observable consequences a criterion of reality. Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID
  • In logical empiricism methodology, Falsificationism is the core while Positivism is the complement.
  • In this way his practice is closest to Aristotelian critical empiricism that requires careful observation and a comprehensive theory that will make those observations meaningful.
  • For one thing, the division between empiricism and rationalism is not as neat as many philosophy primers would have you believe.
  • The central problematics of feminist empiricism can be captured in two apparent paradoxes.
  • But in a crucial departure from Empiricism and towards what might be called a mitigated rationalism, Kant also holds that not all cognition Kant's Theory of Judgment
  • Your second problem is that you want this freakshow amalgam of slaughterhouse and group therapy to be completely apolitical and empirical and scientific, so long as its apoliticality, scientism and empiricism happen to exactly match your own personal preferences, prejudices and predispositions. Over The Counter Plan B Indefinitely Postponed - FDA Director of Women’s Health Resigns
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