Empiricism Definition

ĕm-pîrĭ-sĭzəm
noun
Experimental method; search for knowledge by observation and experiment.
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The theory that sense experience is the only source of knowledge.
Webster's New World
An empirical conclusion.
American Heritage Medicine
Quackery.
Webster's New World
A disregarding of scientific methods and relying solely on experience.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
empiricism
Plural:
empiricisms

Origin of Empiricism

  • from Ancient Greek ἐμπειρία (empeiria, “experience”)

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Empiricism Sentence Examples

  • This is as far removed as possible either from dualism or from empiricism.

  • It finds its chance in the misadventures of empiricism.

  • But once again in his political writings he breaks away from empiricism in appealing to natural law - an intuitionalist or conceivably an idealist tradition.

  • Empiricism is restated by Paley, who is Kant's younger contemporary as a man and also on the whole as a writer.

  • When Otto Ritschl interprets values hedonistically - recoiling from Hegel's idealism the whole way to empiricism - he brings again to our minds the doubt whether hedonist ethics can serve as a foundation for any religious belief.

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