empiricism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
philosophy
political-science
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
sociology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English empiric
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English empiricism
From empiric + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: empiricisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Empiricism teaches us that we are unceasingly and intimately in contact with a full, living, breathing Reality, that experience is a constant communion with the real.
He agrees with Kant that Hume's empiricism is refuted de facto by the example of mathematics, whose judgments are synthetic a priori.
Empiricism is the doctrine that human knowledge is grounded on the kind of experience, mostly achieved through the five senses, whose objects are particular events occurring at particular times and in particular places.
gloss: A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Our whole life in some of its highest and most important aspects is simply empiricism. Empiricism is only another word for experience.
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.
Painting needs no explanation or apology. This most religious of art forms belies the pathetic empiricisms of contemporary discussions.
gloss: Research methodology shaped from empirical philosophy (see above), e.g. surveys, statistics, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere (personal or anecdotal) experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: folk medicine; quackery; charlatanry
Empiricism is not peculiar to Denmark; and I know of no way of rooting it out, though it be a remnant of exploded witchcraft, till the acquiring a general knowledge of the component parts of the human frame, become a part of public education.
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.
Related words: empirical
empiricist
rationalism
Derived words: abstracted empiricism
antiempiricism
metempiricism
neoempiricism
postempiricism
radical empiricism
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: емпиризъм
roman: empirizǎm
lang: Catalan
word: empirisme
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 經驗主義 /经验主义
roman: jīngyànzhǔyì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 經驗論 /经验论
roman: jīngyànlùn
lang: Czech
word: empirismus
lang: Dutch
word: empirisme
lang: Finnish
word: empirismi
lang: French
word: empirisme
lang: German
word: Empirismus
lang: Greek
word: εμπειρισμός
roman: empeirismós
lang: Greek
word: εμπειριοκρατία
roman: empeiriokratía
lang: Hindi
word: अनुभववाद
roman: anubhavvād
lang: Hindi
word: इंद्रियानुभववाद
roman: indriyānubhavvād
lang: Icelandic
word: reynsluhyggja
lang: Icelandic
word: raunhyggja
lang: Japanese
word: 経験論
roman: keikenron
lang: Japanese
word: 経験主義
roman: keikenshugi
lang: Kazakh
word: эмпиризм
roman: émpirizm
lang: Korean
word: 경험론
roman: gyeongheomnon
lang: Polish
word: empiryzm
lang: Polish
word: aposterioryzm
lang: Portuguese
word: empirismo
lang: Romanian
word: empirism
lang: Russian
word: эмпиризм
roman: empirizm
lang: Spanish
word: empirismo
lang: Swedish
word: empirism
lang: Tamil
word: பட்டறிவியம்
roman: paṭṭaṟiviyam
lang: Thai
word: ประสบการณ์นิยม
lang: Ukrainian
word: емпіризм
roman: empiryzm
lang: Vietnamese
word: chủ nghĩa kinh nghiệm