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• Empiricism, magpie amassment of cultural detail, produces an ethnographic telephone book.1995, Clifford Geertz, chapter 2, in After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist,, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University…. From the entry amassment
• Empiricism in natural philosophy was matched by an advanced algebraism in mathematical thinking .1988, Carl A. Raschke, Theological Thinking, page 31. From the entry algebraism
• Models are not equivalent to demonstratability in the sense of empiricism.1979, Annales: Sectio paedagogica et psychologica, page 96. From the entry demonstratability
• Empiricism has its roots in Greek and Roman sophism and skepticism, and continues through Kant and American pragmatism.2003, Murray Leaf, “Ethnography and Pragmatism”, in Alfonso Morales, editor, Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social Science…. From the entry sophism
• The second position, a sort of liberal empiricism, recognizes a variety of legitimate methods and languages within the family of science.1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 6, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry scientific method
• Within the former version, we have nativism (genetic rationalism) and genetic empiricism, but apriorism (methodological rationalism) and aposteriorism (methodological empiricism) are connected with the latter.2004, Jan Woleński, “Analytic vs. synthetic and a priori vs. a posteriori”, in Handbook of Epistemology, Springer, page 782. From the entry aposteriorism
• Dataism and dadaism are the hard core of strict empiricism, a philosophy incongruously held by many theoreticians and underlying much research planning.1998, Mario Bunge -, Philosophy of Science: From Explanation to Justification, →ISBN, page 211. From the entry dataism
• This is an example of Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' breaking the wheel of empiricism and rationalism, inaugurating a new form of transcendental regulation that is to say weak correlationism.2022, Paul Boyé, "The Figure of Inhumanism: Contemporary Speculative Philosophy in the Posthuman Condition", thesis submitted to the…. From the entry break the wheel
• Wolfram Alpha researcher and chatbot author Robert Lockhart describes the chatbot community as being split between two competing approaches, what he calls “pure semantics” and “pure empiricism.”2012, Brian Christian, The Most Human Human […] , Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry chatbot

Meaning of empiricism

1. noun A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses. (Often contrasted with rationalism.).
2. noun A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation.
3. noun Research methodology shaped from empirical philosophy (see above), e.g. surveys, statistics, etc.

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How do you use empiricism in a sentence?

Empiricism is used as a noun. For example: “He agrees with Kant that Hume's empiricism is refuted de facto by the example of mathematics, whose judgments are synthetic a priori.”

What is a short sentence with empiricism?

“Whenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism.”

What does empiricism mean?

Empiricism means a doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses. (Often contrasted with rationalism.).