empiricism
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It was the result of "absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism", he said.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2025
When your congregation zealously overestimates the epistemological functionality of empiricism in the work of logical positivism, you trap the conversation of science and consciousness in your lethally boring Vienna wagon-Circling.
From Salon • Apr. 1, 2024
But not everyone agrees with this emerging consensus, and a new wave of empiricism has emerged over the past decade.
From Scientific American • Mar. 7, 2023
“It’s potentially very healthy if these investigations are animated by an empiricism — an ability to get to the facts,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2023
Experimentation thus required a deeply problematic balancing act between Platonic idealism and a crude empiricism.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
