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empiricism
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empiricism /em·pir·i·cism/ (em-pir´ĭ-sizm) skill or knowledge based entirely on experience.empir´icempir´ical
em·pir·i·cism (m-pîr-szm)
n.
1. Employment of empirical methods, as in science.
2. The practice of medicine that disregards scientific theory and relies solely on practical experience.
em·piri·cist n.
empiricism
[empir′isiz′əm]
a form of therapy based on the therapist's personal experience and that of other practitioners. empiricist, n.
empiricism,
n philosophical school in which theories must be based upon repeatable observations. Modern science has empiricism as its philosophical foundation.
empiricism
skill or knowledge based entirely on experience; compare with rationalism.
empiricism
The belief that knowledge or behaviour stems from experience, learning or data acquired by observation or experimentation. See nativism; empiricist theory.


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This means that, whatever our worldview, we have to act as this-world empiricists when arguing for policy, citing facts potentially available to all parties to the dispute, and using shared canons of logic and evidence.
Naturalism vs. supernaturalism: how to survive the culture wars by Clark, Thomas W. / The Humanist
Or one might restrict the process designation to temporalist empiricists who emphasize the relationality of experience, thus eliminating the idealists but still including the early Chicago school theologians.
American liberal theology: crisis, irony, decline, renewal, ambiguity by Dorrien, Gary / Cross Currents
These modern empiricists and skeptics "are all convinced that our main troubles still come from our having not altogether rid ourselves of all traditional beliefs and continue to set their hopes on further applications of the method of radical scepticism and empiricism.
The false dilemma of modernity by Michell, Mark T. / Modern Age
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