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empiricism
  1. A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation.
  2. (philosophy) A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses. (Often contrasted with rationalism.)
  3. (medicine) A practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; the method or practice of an empiric.
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    1. “He was an empiricist who made empiricism more radical by treating pure experience as the very substance of the world.”
      “Fortunately, the notion that intuitionalism and empiricism exhaust the alternatives no longer universally obtains.”
      “Ryle's attitude to dispositions is part of the heritage of logical empiricism.”
empiric
empiricist
  1. an advocate or supporter of empiricism
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    1. “The Cyrenaics are notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism.”
      “But even the great empiricist John Locke subscribed to a rational foundation for the basic principles of morals.”
      “One does not have to be an atheist to be a rationalist, empiricist or skeptic.”
empiricalness
  1. Quality of being empirical.
empirick
  1. Obsolete form of empiric.
empiricisms
empiricists
  1. plural of empiricist
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    1. “However, at the very least, one can garner background information of what might have influenced the empiricists through the doctrine of skepsis.”
      “For the Stoics were thorough-going empiricists and believed that sense-impressions lie at the foundation of all of our knowledge.”
      “This is the problem of the empiricists, the positivists, the existentialists, the Cartesians, and so forth.”
empiricks
  1. plural of empirick
empirics
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