empiricist

How To Use empiricist In A Sentence

• By incorporating elements of the classical empiricist epistemology of John Locke, this progressive principle has become transformed into the extremely popular position known as constructivism, according to which each student in a classroom constructs his or her own individual body of understandings even when all in the group are given what appears to be the same stimulus or educational experience. Philosophy of Education
• In the writings of the logical empiricists this view was closely allied to a sceptical attitude concerning the ontological status of the unobservable things postulated by scientific theories.
• Borrowing heavily from Western empiricist thought, these intellectuals attacked all forms of traditional Chinese teachings, ritual, and institutions.
• The Cyrenaics are notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism.
• Mr. Chu is an empiricist: “There are a variety of mashing techniques that will take you to smooth and creamy, but the handheld mixer, used quickly to avoid overbeating and overdeveloping the potato starch, is best.” One Big Table
• Aristotle was a thoroughgoing ‘empiricist’ in two senses of that slippery term.
• His action exemplifies what the late Stephen Jay Gould, on his essay on the lynxes, aptly called ‘the authoritarian form of the empiricist myth’.
• This is because traditional notions of determinism in positivist and empiricist philosophies of science produced the odd idea that causation in the human world is agent-less and is not a force.
• However, at the very least, one can garner background information of what might have influenced the empiricists through the doctrine of skepsis.
• The Cyrenaics are notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism.