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The doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
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empiricism
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Empiricism \Em*pir"i*cism\, n. The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment. Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and ...
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Empiricism is the fifth studio album by Borknagar , and their first studio album to feature Vintersorg (known as the frontman of the band of the same name ) on vocals, along with the addition of Tyr on bass. This would mark the last album appearance of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience [syn: empiricist philosophy , sensationalism ] the application of empirical methods in any art or science medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation. 2 (context philosophy English) A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But there is another characteristic strand to foundationalism, that of empiricism . ▪ He noted that qualitative experience is lost when a reductionist empiricism seeks only quantitative generalizations. ▪ Indeed, they have been ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, in the medical sense, from empiric + -ism . Later in a general sense of "reliance on direct observation rather than theory," especially an undue reliance on mere individual experience; in reference to a philosophical doctrine which regards experience ...
Usage examples of empiricism.
Like the Copernican shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric view of the solar system, the shift from scientific materialism to radical empiricism entails a shift from a matter-centered concept of reality to a holistic view of mental and physical phenomena as dependently related events.
It's that as we make our way across the historical landscape toward the sensed presence of this transcendental other, so it is making its way toward us through the content of dreams, psychedelic experiences, the careers of spiritually advanced people, -- the idea being that history, which is a state of extreme instability and disequilibrium which only lasts 15 or 20 thousand years, that history is about to be transformed or ended, that the factors that shaped history -- phonetic alphabets, male dominance, materialism, scientific method, empiricism -- these factors are about to be made obsolete by discoveries in the human and natural realm.
Under the 'scientistic' influence of positivism and empiricism, there were claims of a unified empirical science that encompasses all 'real' knowledge, excluding the various attempts to claim an autonomous status for the emerging human sciences of cultural and subjective reality"
With their penchant for linguistic analysis, mathematical logic, and scientific empiricism, they have aligned philosophy with the mystique of science, have begun to transform the philosopher's library or mountain retreat into something nearer to a laboratory, and, as William Earle said, would come to work in white coats if they thought they could get away with it.
If we look at the propositions of the antithesis, we shall find in it a perfect uniformity in the mode of thought and a complete unity of principle, namely, the principle of pure empiricism, not only in the explanation of the phenomena of the world, but also in the solution of the transcendental ideas of the cosmical universe itself.