empiricism
21empiricism — A looking to experience as a guide to practice or to the therapeutic use of any remedy. * * * em·pir·i·cism im pir ə .siz əm, em n 1 a) a former school of medical practice based on the teachings of the empirics b) QUACKERY 2) the practice of …
22empiricism — Synonyms and related words: Christian ethics, Marxism, R and D, Stoicism, altruistic ethics, animalism, aretaics, atomism, behaviorism, casuistry, categorical imperative, commonsense realism, comparative ethics, control, control experiment,… …
23EMPIRICISM — a philosophical term applied to the theory that all knowledge is derived from the senses and experience alone, to the rejection of the theory of innate ideas; Locke, in modern times, is the great representative of the school that advocates… …
24empiricism — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. induction, experimentation, experientialism; see philosophy 1 …
25empiricism — em|pir|i|cis|m [ımˈpırısızəm] n [U] the belief in basing your ideas on practical experience >empiricist n …
26EMPIRICISM — the view that all knowledge is ultimately derived from experience. It is contrasted with RATIONALISM which holds the view that the mind may arrive at true knowledge by the use of reason alone without appeal to experience …
27empiricism — doctrine that the experience of the senses is the only source of knowledge Philosophical Isms …
28empiricism — em pir·i·cism || ɪsɪzÉ™m n. empirical method, doctrine that all knowledge is based on observation and experience; application of observation and experiment; (Medicine) medicine that is based exclusively on experience …
29Empiricism — The belief that human beings can only have certain knowledge of matters which are perceived by the five senses …
30empiricism — The philosophical stance that experience, especially of the senses, is the only source of knowledge. Also, the use of empirical methods. Also see epistemology, interdisciplinary, metaphysics, ontology, phenomenology, and teleology …
