empiricism

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Kim said on Thursday that the accident was caused by "absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism".

From BBC • May 23, 2025

In the history of these debates over the nature of consciousness, the element of the subjective is often either dismissed as a casualty of empiricism, or downplayed as though it’s not as valuable.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 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

The discussion of experience/experiment claims that the English vocabulary fosters empiricism, while the French vocabulary is at odds with it; this would also seem to be true in this case.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton