empiricism

empiricism englannista suomeksi

1. empirismi

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1. empirismi

empiricism englanniksi

1. Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; folk medicine, quackery. (defdate)

2. {{quote-text|en|year=1796|author=Mary Wollstonecraft|title=Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark|page=105|publisher=Oxford|year_published=2009

3. 1990, Alison Klairmont Lingo, "Review of ''Professional and Popular Medicine in France, 1770-1830'' by Matthew Ramsey," ''Journal of Social History'', vol. 23, no. 3 (Spring), p. 607:

Even at the height of its popularity, medical empiricism was the creature of a most unforgiving free market economy. Successful practitioners seduced crowds as well as public officials.

4. 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.) (defdate)

5. {{quote-journal|en|year=1893|author=James Seth|title=The Truth of Empiricism.|journal=The Philosophical Review|volume=2|number=5|month=Sep|page=552

6. {{quote-journal|en|year=1950|author=Virgil Hinshaw, Jr.|title=Review of ''Socratic Method and Critical Philosophy, Selected Essays by Leonard Nelson''|journal=Philosophy and Phenomenological Research|volume=11|number=2|month=Dec|page=285

7. {{quote-journal|en|year=1958|author=Ernest A. Moody|title=Empiricism and Metaphysics in Medieval Philosophy|journal=The Philosophical Review|volume=67|number=2|month=Apr|page=151

8. A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation. (defdate)

9. 1885, Gerard F. Cobb, "Musical Psychics," ''Proceedings of the Musical Association'', 11th Session, p. 119:

Our whole life in some of its highest and most important aspects is simply empiricism. Empiricism is only another word for experience.

10. 1951, Einstein|Albert Einstein, letter to Maurice Solovine (Jan. 1), in ''Letters to Solovine'':

I have found no better expression than "religious" for confidence in the rational nature of reality''...''. Whenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism.

11. {{quote-journal|en|year=2001|author=Mark Zimmermann|title=The Stillness of Painting: Robert Kingston and His Contemporaries|journal=PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art|volume=23|number=3|month=Sep|page=71

12. used to describe research based on methodology shaped from empirical philosophy (see above), e.g. surveys, statistics, etc.