| 单词 | empirical philosopher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasempirical philosopher empirical philosopher n. (a) a person who pursues scientific knowledge by means of observation and experiment (now historical and rare); (b) a person who espouses or practises empirical philosophy; = empiricist n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > [noun] > empiricism > one who empirical philosophera1626 empiricist1867 experientialist1870 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > scientist > relying on observation or experiment empiric?c1425 observer1611 empirical philosophera1626 spectator1646 empiricist1867 a1626 F. Bacon Apophthegmes in Baconiana (1679) 58 The Empirical Philosophers are like to Pismires; they only lay up and use their Store. The Rationalists are like to spiders; they spin all out of their own Bowels. 1670 S. Gott Divine Hist. Genesis World x. 330 I have to deal with such Empirical Philosophers, who make Sens alone to be both their Text and Topikes. 1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason 363 If the empirical philosopher with his antithesis, had no other object than to destroy the forwardness and temerity of reason. 1873 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 2 23 The gardener is a good empirical philosopher. In his experience of cultivated plants he has learnt many laws which escape the field naturalist. 1939 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 18 9 For extreme empirical philosophers, unless an entity has..the character shared by colours, sounds, tastes, pains, etc., and feelings and images, that entity cannot be known. 1954 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Sept. 612/2 Empirical philosophers like Locke Berkeley and Hume receive scarcely more than a mention. 2004 N. Bunnin Blackwell Dict. Western Philos. 92/1 The position is popular among empirical philosophers, and is also called the serial theory (because it claims that the self is a series of experiences). < as lemmas |
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