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

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

Democracy, it's worth remembering, emerged as an Enlightenment ideal, and cannot be separated from other Enlightenment values, such as the importance of empiricism and the value of critical thinking.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2023

Experimentation thus required a deeply problematic balancing act between Platonic idealism and a crude empiricism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton