Sentence:  <WSD>Dataism</WSD> and dadaism are the hard core of strict empiricism, a philosophy incongruously held by many theoreticians and underlying much research planning. It encourages the blind accumulation of superficial information that leads nowhere because it comes from nowhere and takes place in a vacuum of ideas. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The belief that all knowledge consists of data and that scientific theories should only be the simplest systematizations of that data.