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词汇 empiricism
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Definition of empiricism in English:

empiricism

noun ɛmˈpɪrɪsɪz(ə)məmˈpɪrəˌsɪzəm
mass nounPhilosophy
  • The theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.

    〔哲〕经验主义,经验论。比较PHENOMENALISM

    Compare with phenomenalism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In this way his practice is closest to Aristotelian critical empiricism that requires careful observation and a comprehensive theory that will make those observations meaningful.
    • Yet habit is the linchpin for the philosophical way of thinking that James called radical empiricism, and later pragmatism.
    • Empiricism certainly has a role to play, but it cannot be the empiricism of ivory tower academics, and it cannot be an exclusive role.
    • Emerging in the eighteenth century, political economy drew on the individualism of Hobbes and Locke, the pragmatism of Machiavelli, and the empiricism of Bacon.
    • The central problematics of feminist empiricism can be captured in two apparent paradoxes.
    • There were errors of interpretation in feminists' critiques, for example, concerning the extent to which analytic philosophy incorporated empiricism.
    • The temporal delimitation suggests an arbitrary empiricism reluctant to address either the agony of contemporaneity, or the pathological prehistory of modernity.
    • Fernow played up a widely accepted historical dichotomy between European theory and British empiricism in science.
    • He is however thoroughly within the tradition of British empiricism in philosophy.
    • Ryle's attitude to dispositions is part of the heritage of logical empiricism.

Definition of empiricism in US English:

empiricism

nounəmˈpɪrəˌsɪzəməmˈpirəˌsizəm
Philosophy
  • The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.

    〔哲〕经验主义,经验论。比较PHENOMENALISM

    Compare with phenomenalism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There were errors of interpretation in feminists' critiques, for example, concerning the extent to which analytic philosophy incorporated empiricism.
    • He is however thoroughly within the tradition of British empiricism in philosophy.
    • The central problematics of feminist empiricism can be captured in two apparent paradoxes.
    • Ryle's attitude to dispositions is part of the heritage of logical empiricism.
    • In this way his practice is closest to Aristotelian critical empiricism that requires careful observation and a comprehensive theory that will make those observations meaningful.
    • Yet habit is the linchpin for the philosophical way of thinking that James called radical empiricism, and later pragmatism.
    • Fernow played up a widely accepted historical dichotomy between European theory and British empiricism in science.
    • The temporal delimitation suggests an arbitrary empiricism reluctant to address either the agony of contemporaneity, or the pathological prehistory of modernity.
    • Empiricism certainly has a role to play, but it cannot be the empiricism of ivory tower academics, and it cannot be an exclusive role.
    • Emerging in the eighteenth century, political economy drew on the individualism of Hobbes and Locke, the pragmatism of Machiavelli, and the empiricism of Bacon.
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