empiricism
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empiricism
noun empiricisms
- 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.) Empiricism teaches us that we are unceasingly and intimately in contact with a full, living, breathing Reality, that experience is a constant communion with the real.
- 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 for experience.
- Research methodology shaped from empirical philosophy (see above), e.g. surveys, statistics, etc.
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Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere (personal or anecdotal) experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles.
Near-synonyms: folk medicine; quackery; charlatanry
Similar: folk medicine, quackery, charlatanry
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noun philosophical theory
| Español | empirismo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 경험론 gyeongheomnon |
| 日本語 | 経験論 keikenron, 経験主義 keikenshugi |
| 中文 | 經驗主義 /经验主义 jīngyànzhǔyì, 經驗論 /经验论 jīngyànlùn |
| हिन्दी | अनुभववाद anubhavvād, इंद्रियानुभववाद indriyānubhavvād |
| Português | empirismo |
| Français | empirisme |
| Deutsch | Empirismus |
| Ελληνικά | εμπειρισμός empeirismós, εμπειριοκρατία empeiriokratía |
| Română | empirism |
| Русский | эмпиризм empirizm |
| Tiếng Việt | chủ nghĩa kinh nghiệm |
noun pursuit of knowledge purely through experience
| Deutsch | Empirie, Empirismus |
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