Associations to the word «Empiricism»
Noun
- Genetics
- Mathematic
- Doctrine
- Essay
- Metaphor
- Aesthetics
- Whitehead
- Ethic
- Predicate
- Thinker
- Berkeley
- Prediction
- Observation
- Abstraction
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- Nineteenth
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- Explanation
- Experience
- Probability
- Science
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- Voltaire
- Individuality
- Genetic
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- Sensation
- Reasoning
- Relevance
- Bertrand
- Cognition
- Newton
- Norwood
- Liberalism
- Distillation
- Cal
- Comte
- Natural
- Distinction
- Enquiry
- Justification
- Theology
- Absolute
- Circle
- Paradox
- Phi
- Ideology
- Auguste
- Significance
- Linguistic
- Biology
- Coleridge
- Reconstruction
- Plato
- Anthropology
- Gupta
- Conception
- Russell
- Concept
- Argument
- Gustav
- Reliance
- Belief
- Criterion
Adjective
Wiktionary
EMPIRICISM, noun. A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation.
EMPIRICISM, noun. (philosophy) 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.)
EMPIRICISM, noun. (medicine) (dated) A practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; the method or practice of an empiric.
Dictionary definition
EMPIRICISM, noun. (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience.
EMPIRICISM, noun. The application of empirical methods in any art or science.
EMPIRICISM, noun. Medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings.
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