empiricism

Empiricism — • Primarily, and in its psychological application, the term signifies the theory that the phenomena of consciousness are simply the product of sensuous experience, i.e. of sensations variously associated and arranged Catholic Encyclopedia.… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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empiricism — noun эмпиризм …   Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Empiricism — Em*pir i*cism, n. 1. The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment. [1913 Webster] 2. Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

empiricism — 1> эмпиризм; эмпирика, эмпирический подход 2> практицизм; делячество 3> эмпирический вывод; положение, выведенное эмпирическим путем 4> филос. эмпиризм 5> уст. знахарство …   Новый большой англо-русский словарь

empiricism — index casuistry, experience (background) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

Empiricism — John Locke, a leading philosopher of British empiricism This article is about the field of philosophy. For the album by Borknagar, see Empiricism (album). Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that asserts that knowledge comes only or primarily via …   Wikipedia

empiricism — empiricist, n., adj. /em pir euh siz euhm/, n. 1. empirical method or practice. 2. Philos. the doctrine that all knowledge is derived from sense experience. Cf. rationalism (def. 2). 3. undue reliance upon experience, as in medicine; quackery. 4 …   Universalium

empiricism — The permanent strand in philosophy that attempts to tie knowledge to experience. Experience is thought of either as the sensory contents of consciousness, or as whatever is expressed in some designated class of statements that can be observed to… …   Philosophy dictionary

empiricism — noun a) A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation. Our whole life in some of its highest and most important aspects is simply empiricism. Empiricism is only another word… …   Wiktionary