Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who believes in philosophical empiricism; one who regards sensuous experience as the sole source of all ideas and knowledge.
- noun A medical empiric.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An empiric.
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- noun an advocate or supporter of
empiricism
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- noun a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism
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Examples
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Quine was a logical empiricist, which is a much broader category.
Think Progress » Fox Thinks Winter Chill Disproves Global Warming; Experts Disagree 2010
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In that case the rationalist will usually also be in favor of what is called free-will, and the empiricist will be a fatalist --
Pragmatism William James 1876
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This so-called empiricist dogma of Sarpi, Galileo, Rene Descartes, Antonio Conti, et al., provided the basis for what John Maynard Keynes was to expose later as the morbid hoax of "black magic" speculator Isaac Newton.
LaRouche's Latest 2008
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He paused in thought for a good bit longer than I expected and replied that he was an "empiricist".
Valuing Life, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In natural philosophy and metaphysics Marsilius was an empiricist, meaning that he thought all scientific knowledge must be based on either sense data or self-evident propositions, i.e., propositions in which the meaning of the predicate is included in the subject.
Marsilius of Inghen Hoenen, Maarten 2007
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It has inspired Kant with a peremptory refutation of "empiricist" theories of knowledge.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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No one can live an hour without both facts and principles, so it is a difference rather of emphasis; yet it breeds antipathies of the most pungent character between those who lay the emphasis differently; and we shall find it extraordinarily convenient to express a certain contrast in men's ways of taking their universe, by talking of the 'empiricist' and of the
Pragmatism William James 1876
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In a 2002 interview, Benedict described himself as "always an empiricist, meaning I liked to write the facts - before we discovered they really didn't exist."
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If that is the case, how does an non-modeling "empiricist" contribute?
RealClimate 2009
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This discussion implicates both the "empiricist" and the "transcendental" perspectives, and suggests that Marx does not regard either as a fully adequate representation of the commodity.
Roughtheory.org 2009
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