empiricism
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8.4
- noun
- /ɪmˈpɪrɪsɪzəm/
- Formal
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empirismo
- This is British individualism and empiricism, right?
- empiricism and rationalism
- radical empiricism
- scientific empiricism
AI relies on data and empiricism and evidence.
- AI relies on data and empiricism and evidence.
- I'm going to endorse empiricism as far as my theory of human knowledge goes.
- What I want you to think in terms of is empiricism.
- So he's going to influence other people who identify with, let's call it empiricism, broad speaking.
- Like how do you get to like what is Dust Bowl empiricism referred to?
- So how is it that idealism in this sense is really a kind of empiricism?
Examples
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In science, empiricism is the foundation of experimentation and factual discovery.
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But really, we have nothing better than empiricism, and science is the best of our empiricism.
Blog text (34) -
AI relies on data and empiricism and evidence.
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I'm going to endorse empiricism as far as my theory of human knowledge goes.
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In fact, sociobiology, for all its attempts at empiricism, fell into these gender traps over and over again.
Academic text (1992) -
The industrial revolution was going to demand objectivity and empiricism, and that would continue to bolster individualism.
Academic text (2002) -
So through empiricism, through experience, we know that this happens to be true, that the flux is linearly proportional to the temperature gradient.
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Interestingly, philosophical tradition, as well as intuition, suggests that empiricism and rationalism are independent epistemological perspectives.
Academic text (1994) -
Empiricism emphasizes that we gain knowledge primarily through experience and observation.
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Many philosophers argue that empiricism is essential for understanding the natural world.
Synonyms
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9.9
The idea that real knowledge comes only from what we can see or test
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8.4
A way of working that tries new ideas and methods to see what works
A view that knowledge comes mostly from what we learn through our senses
The belief that people learn best by doing things rather than by reading or listening
Belief that knowledge and morals come from feelings and sense experience
A judgment based on facts and experience rather than theory
Compounds
- Formal
A British way of thinking that says people learn from experience and the senses
How Traditional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Empiricism comes from the Greek word empeiria meaning 'experience', the same idea in English experience, so it means learning from watching, trying, and testing rather than from theory.