empiricist
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- noun
- /ɛmˈpɪrɪsɪst/
- Formal
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empirista
- Professor Moore is an avowed empiricist, but there are two striking empirical problems with this claim.
- empiricist epistemology
- logical empiricists
And then he says, here's the difference between us empiricists and those absolutists.
- And then he says, here's the difference between us empiricists and those absolutists.
Examples
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And then he says, here's the difference between us empiricists and those absolutists.
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Our nervous system responds to certain things, and I think this is where we get to be a kind of empiricist in our own life.
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And it's not like the empiricists say that they just have less knowledge.
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Finally, how are we to assess the contest between the empiricist and transcendentalist views?
Academic text (1999) -
Dicke, despite his flair for theory, is the ultimate empiricist, a man who measures.
Academic text (1994) -
A central empiricist tenet is that there are no synthetic a priori truths.
Academic text (2005) -
Thus Kant, building on his empiricist predecessors, drew out the epistemological consequences of the Cartesian cogito.
Academic text (1990) -
As an empiricist, she believes that all her knowledge must come from real-world experiences.
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The empiricist approach led him to conduct experiments to gather data rather than rely on assumptions.
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Many thinkers align themselves with empiricism, asserting that observation is key to understanding our world.
Synonyms
A person who trusts tests and experience instead of theory
Compounds
- Formal
A view that knowledge comes mostly from what we learn through our senses
How Experience-Based
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Etymology
Empiricist comes from the root empiric-, which means 'experience' and is the same idea in the English word experience. So an empiricist is someone who trusts knowledge that comes from our senses and from tests.