empiricism
IPA: ɛmpˈɪrʌsɪzʌm
noun
- (medicine, now chiefly historical) Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; folk medicine, quackery.
- (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.)
- A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation.
- (social sciences, political science, sociology) used to describe research based on methodology shaped from empirical philosophy (see above), e.g. surveys, statistics, etc.
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Examples of "empiricism" in Sentences
- The truth is immanent within reason and empiricism.
- Classical empiricism embraces the methodist approach.
- Empiricism comes from the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment.
- The criticisms of logical positivism and empiricism are damming.
- The articles on Rationalism and Empiricism are sorely deficient.
- Empiricism is the view that all knowledge is grounded in experience.
- The naive empiricism of induction was shown to be illogical by Hume.
- A prolegomenon to nonlinear empiricism in the human behavioral sciences.
- To exercise the logic of the subject heading and the principles of empiricism.
- I've added a reference to empiricism and rationalism in the intro, with links.
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