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How to pronounce “empiricism”
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- Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar
you know empiricism being the philosophy
- Definition summary
- (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.) [from 18th c.]
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How to pronounce empiricism
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar
you know empiricism being the philosophy
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Meaning
- [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.) [from 18th c.]
- A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation. [from 19th c.]
- (social sciences, political science, sociology) Research methodology shaped from empirical philosophy (see above), e.g. surveys, statistics, etc.
- (medicine, now chiefly historical) Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere (personal or anecdotal) experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles. [from 17th c.]
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