empiricist
/ɛmˈpɪrɪsɪst
/Philosophy
noun
A person who supports the theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses: most scientists are empiricists by nature...
- Feminist empiricists prefer the tools of analytic philosophy of science.
- Russell took this to refute the older empiricists, for whom all knowledge rests solely on sense experience.
- Logical empiricists can readily incorporate this point in an account of the relative merits of different types of inductive inference.
adjective
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...
- It is a common empiricist assumption that I can know my experience simply by observing it.
- He believes that the motive of benevolence, so dear to empiricist morality, is a species of mere inclination, and therefore morally neutral.
- To some extent he is criticizing assumptions common to the whole school of empiricist philosophers - Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and many others.
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