Look up: empiricism

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   Empiricism
   the doctrine that says sense experience is the only source of knowledge.
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   Empiricism
   Empiricism is the theory that personal experience is the source of all knowledge and that the mind was originally an absolute blank. The theory originated with Heraclitus and was characteristic of Greek speculative thought.
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   empiricism
   [n] - the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
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   Empiricism
   An empiricist bases what he knows only on his observation and experience of the world around him regarding the information provided by his senses as valid.
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   empiricism
   In philosophy, the belief that all knowledge is ultimately derived from sense experience. It is suspicious of metaphysical schemes based on a priori propositions, which are claimed to be true...
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   Empiricism
   the view that knowledge is derived from sensory experience, for example visual observation. More loosely, it has been used to describe research that contains little in the way of reflection or theory, preferring to report `facts' as they appear to be (as in the term 'abstracted empiricism').
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   empiricism
   the practice of emphasizing experience Category: Management in the public and private sector
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   Empiricism
   Em·pir'i·cism noun 1. The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment. 2. Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery. 3. (Metaph.) The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all ou ...
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   empiricism
   1. The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment. ... 2. Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery. ... 3. <psychology> The philosophical theory which attributes the ...
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    empiricism
    empiricist philosophy noun (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
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    empiricism
    noun the application of empirical methods in any art or science
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    Empiricism
    • (n.) The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment. • (n.) Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery. • (n.) The philosophical theory which attributes t...
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    Empiricism
    in philosophy, the attitude that beliefs are to be accepted and acted upon only if they first have been confirmed by actual experience. This broad ... [28 related articles]
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    empiricism
    A looking to experience as a guide to practice or to the therapeutic use of any remedy.
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    Empiricism
    John Locke's philosophical assertion that all knowledge is based on experience.
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    empiricism
    In philosophy, the view that knowledge can be derived only from sense experience. Modern empiricism, fundamentally opposed to the rationalism that derived knowledge by deduction from principles known as a priori, was developed in the philosophies of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Other thinkers in the '...
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    empiricism
    empiricism (empir'isizum) [Gr.,=experience], philosophical doctrine that all knowledge is derived from experience. For most empiricists, experience includes inner experience—reflection upon the mind and its operations—as well as sense perception. This position is opposed to rationali...
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    Empiricism
    (1) A proposition about the sources of knowledge: that the sole source of knowledge is experience, or that either no knowledge at all or no knowledge with existential reference is possible independently of experience. Experience (q.v.) may be understood as either all conscious content, data of the senses only, or other designated content. Such emp...
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