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单词 empiricist
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Definition of empiricist in English:

empiricist

noun ɛmˈpɪrɪsɪstəmˈpɪrəsəst
Philosophy
  • A person who supports the theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses.

    most scientists are empiricists by nature
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Critics rightly describe him as a great empiricist, but he was certainly no prisoner of fact.
    • Logical empiricists can readily incorporate this point in an account of the relative merits of different types of inductive inference.
    • One does not have to be an atheist to be a rationalist, empiricist or skeptic.
    • Russell took this to refute the older empiricists, for whom all knowledge rests solely on sense experience.
    • But even the great empiricist John Locke subscribed to a rational foundation for the basic principles of morals.
    • Perhaps social situation is partially responsible for the rise of the medical empiricists.
    • They were men of science, Baconian empiricists, Protestants, and improvers.
    • Locke, as a moderate empiricist, accepted that there were both material and immaterial substances.
    • Feminist empiricists prefer the tools of analytic philosophy of science.
    • He was an empiricist who made empiricism more radical by treating pure experience as the very substance of the world.
adjective ɛmˈpɪrɪsɪstəmˈpɪrəsəst
Philosophy
  • Relating to or characteristic of the theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses.

    his radically empiricist view of science as a direct engagement with the world
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He believes that the motive of benevolence, so dear to empiricist morality, is a species of mere inclination, and therefore morally neutral.
    • Locke and his successors in the empiricist tradition argued that the foundation of contingent knowledge about the world lies in sensory experience.
    • It is a common empiricist assumption that I can know my experience simply by observing it.
    • In putting the question this way, James takes issue with Hume's empiricist critique of identity.
    • This openness has also been why psychoanalysis has often been dismissed as not sufficiently empiricist or objective in its methods.
    • Orwell's notion of language involves similar empiricist assumptions, in its naive belief that one first has a concept and then fits a word to it.
    • The empiricist position has been taken in recent times by the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle.
    • To some extent he is criticizing assumptions common to the whole school of empiricist philosophers - Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and many others.
    • He dismisses the theories of those who do not share his strict materialist and empiricist approach to brain-function.
    • Borrowing heavily from Western empiricist thought, these intellectuals attacked all forms of traditional Chinese teachings, ritual, and institutions.

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Definition of empiricist in US English:

empiricist

nounəmˈpirəsəstəmˈpɪrəsəst
Philosophy
  • A person who supports the theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses.

    most scientists are empiricists by nature
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Logical empiricists can readily incorporate this point in an account of the relative merits of different types of inductive inference.
    • He was an empiricist who made empiricism more radical by treating pure experience as the very substance of the world.
    • Feminist empiricists prefer the tools of analytic philosophy of science.
    • But even the great empiricist John Locke subscribed to a rational foundation for the basic principles of morals.
    • Russell took this to refute the older empiricists, for whom all knowledge rests solely on sense experience.
    • Critics rightly describe him as a great empiricist, but he was certainly no prisoner of fact.
    • Locke, as a moderate empiricist, accepted that there were both material and immaterial substances.
    • Perhaps social situation is partially responsible for the rise of the medical empiricists.
    • They were men of science, Baconian empiricists, Protestants, and improvers.
    • One does not have to be an atheist to be a rationalist, empiricist or skeptic.
adjectiveəmˈpirəsəstəmˈpɪrəsəst
Philosophy
  • Relating to or characteristic of the theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses.

    his radically empiricist view of science as a direct engagement with the world
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He believes that the motive of benevolence, so dear to empiricist morality, is a species of mere inclination, and therefore morally neutral.
    • The empiricist position has been taken in recent times by the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle.
    • This openness has also been why psychoanalysis has often been dismissed as not sufficiently empiricist or objective in its methods.
    • Borrowing heavily from Western empiricist thought, these intellectuals attacked all forms of traditional Chinese teachings, ritual, and institutions.
    • In putting the question this way, James takes issue with Hume's empiricist critique of identity.
    • Orwell's notion of language involves similar empiricist assumptions, in its naive belief that one first has a concept and then fits a word to it.
    • He dismisses the theories of those who do not share his strict materialist and empiricist approach to brain-function.
    • To some extent he is criticizing assumptions common to the whole school of empiricist philosophers - Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and many others.
    • It is a common empiricist assumption that I can know my experience simply by observing it.
    • Locke and his successors in the empiricist tradition argued that the foundation of contingent knowledge about the world lies in sensory experience.
 
 
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