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51transcendental 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… …
52Naïve empiricism — is a term used in several ways in different fields. In the philosophy of science, it is used by opponents to describe the position, associated with some logical positivists, that immediate sense experience is by itself sufficient to provide the… …
53Two Dogmas of Empiricism — W. V. O. Quine s paper Two Dogmas of Empiricism , published in 1951, is one of the most celebrated papers of twentieth century philosophy in the analytic tradition. The paper is an attack on two central parts of the logical positivists philosophy …
54Quasi-empiricism — refers to applying quasi empirical methods and accepting their results as valid or true, as in quasi empiricism in mathematics …
55Two Dogmas of Empiricism — Zwei Dogmen des Empirismus (Originaltitel: Two Dogmas of Empiricism ) ist einer der bedeutendsten Aufsätze des US amerikanischen Philosophen Willard Van Orman Quine und damit gleichzeitig einer der bedeutendsten Aufsätze der Analytischen… …
56Contextual empiricism — is a theory about validating scientific knowledge. It is the view that scientific knowledge is shaped by contextual values as well as constitutive ones.[1] See also Scientific theory Helen Longino References ^ Janet Kourany, Scientific Knowledge …
57abstracted empiricism — A term coined by C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination (1959) and used to refer to the work of those sociologists who equate empiricism with science and make a fetish of quantitative research techniques. Whilst Mills accepts that there… …
58scientific empiricism — noun 1. : a philosophical movement that denies the existence of any ultimate differences in the sciences, strives for unified science through a synthesis of scientific methodologies, comprises in addition to logical positivists thinkers with… …
59constructive empiricism — A position in the philosophy of science associated with the 20th century Canadian philosopher Bas van Fraassen (The Scientific Image, 1980). Constructive empiricism divides science into observation statements and theory statements. It holds that… …
60British empiricism — noun the predominant philosophical tradition in Great Britain since the 17th century • Hypernyms: ↑empiricism, ↑empiricist philosophy, ↑sensationalism …
