empiricism
41empiricism — Searching for knowledge by experiment. A practice of medicine founded on mere experience without the aid of science or the knowledge of scientific principles. Nelson v State Board of Health, 22 Ky LR 438, 57 SW 501 …
42empiricism, logical — See verification ; Vienna Circle …
43Essays in Radical Empiricism — (ERE) by William James is a collection edited and published posthumously by his colleague and biographer Ralph Barton Perry in 1912. It was assembled from ten out of a collection of twelve reprinted journal articles published from 1904–1905 which …
44Constructive empiricism — In philosophy, constructive empiricism is a form of empiricism. Bas van Fraassen is nearly solely responsible for the initial development of constructive empiricism; its historically most important presentation appears in his The Scientific Image …
45Radical empiricism — is a pragmatist doctrine put forth by William James. It asserts that experience includes both particulars and relations between those particulars, and that therefore both deserve a place in our explanations. In concrete terms: any philosophical… …
46transcendental empiricism + politics — by Bruce Baugh Deleuze often quoted Alfred North Whitehead s dictum that the abstract does not explain, but needs to be explained. This thought stands at the basis of both Deleuze s transcendental empiricism that searches for the real… …
47transcendental empiricism + politics — by Bruce Baugh Deleuze often quoted Alfred North Whitehead s dictum that the abstract does not explain, but needs to be explained. This thought stands at the basis of both Deleuze s transcendental empiricism that searches for the real… …
48radical empiricism — radical empiricist. 1. (in the philosophy of William James) the doctrine that the only proper subject matter of philosophy is that which can be defined in terms of experience, and that relations are a part of experience. 2. sensationalism (def.… …
49Quasi-empiricism in mathematics — is the attempt in the philosophy of mathematics to direct philosophers attention to mathematical practice, in particular, relations with physics, social sciences, and computational mathematics, rather than solely to issues in the foundations of… …
50transcendental empiricism — by Cliff Stagoll Empiricism refers to the view that the intelligible derives always from the sensible, whilst transcendentalism assumes that experience must rest upon some logically necessary foundation. The former position is typified by… …
