Of course this perspective is not available to the empiricists, and they do not have such a straightforward explanation of the seeming necessity of mathematics. |
For the Stoics were thorough-going empiricists and believed that sense-impressions lie at the foundation of all of our knowledge. |
Russell took this to refute the older empiricists, for whom all knowledge rests solely on sense experience. |
Heidegger doesn't even differ from the empiricists and positivists in thinking that it was the wrong idea. |
Logical empiricists can readily incorporate this point in an account of the relative merits of different types of inductive inference. |
Perhaps social situation is partially responsible for the rise of the medical empiricists. |