empiricism
1Empiricism — empiricism …
2Empiricism — Empiricism …
3Empiricism — • Primarily, and in its psychological application, the term signifies the theory that the phenomena of consciousness are simply the product of sensuous experience, i.e. of sensations variously associated and arranged Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …
4empiricism — Empiricism is the doctrine that some or all of our knowledge or concepts come from experience. The version of empiricism with respect to concepts is often known as concept empiricism and the version of either that says that all our knowledge… …
5Empiricism — Em*pir i*cism, n. 1. The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment. [1913 Webster] 2. Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of… …
6empiricism — index casuistry, experience (background) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
7empiricism — 1650s, in the medical sense, from EMPIRIC (Cf. empiric) + ISM (Cf. ism). General sense is from 1796 …
8empiricism — ► NOUN Philosophy ▪ the theory that all knowledge is derived from experience and observation. DERIVATIVES empiricist noun & adjective …
9empiricism — [em pir′i siz΄əm] n. 1. experimental method; search for knowledge by observation and experiment 2. a) a disregarding of scientific methods and relying solely on experience b) Archaic quackery 3. Philos. the theory that sense experience is the… …
10Empiricism — John Locke, a leading philosopher of British empiricism This article is about the field of philosophy. For the album by Borknagar, see Empiricism (album). Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that asserts that knowledge comes only or primarily via …
