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Empiricism — empiricism … Dictionary of sociology
Empiricism — Empiricism … Википедия
Empiricism — • 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… … Catholic encyclopedia
empiricism — 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… … Christian Philosophy
Empiricism — 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
empiricism — 1650s, in the medical sense, from EMPIRIC (Cf. empiric) + ISM (Cf. ism). General sense is from 1796 … Etymology dictionary
empiricism — ► NOUN Philosophy ▪ the theory that all knowledge is derived from experience and observation. DERIVATIVES empiricist noun & adjective … English terms dictionary
empiricism — [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… … English World dictionary
Empiricism — 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 … Wikipedia
empiricism — empiricist, n., adj. /em pir euh siz euhm/, n. 1. empirical method or practice. 2. Philos. the doctrine that all knowledge is derived from sense experience. Cf. rationalism (def. 2). 3. undue reliance upon experience, as in medicine; quackery. 4 … Universalium
