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Empiricism

noun

(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience. Synonyms: empiricist philosophy, sensationalism.

The application of empirical methods in any art or science.

Medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings. Synonym: quackery.

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... of those who happily remain ignorant of this successful empiricism, it is desirable that the record and exposition of it be made brief. There is little danger that it will long survive its author. But the present subjects of it are sufficiently numerous to deserve some pity. The following is ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... sixteenth century to justify their rejection of certain doctrines were used by later generations to prepare the way for still greater inroads upon the contents of Christianity, and finally to justify an attitude of doubt concerning the very foundations on which Christianity was based. Empiricism, Sensualism, Materialism, and Scepticism in philosophy, undermined dogmatic Christianity, and prepared the way for the irreligious and indifferentist opinions, that found such general favour among the educated and higher ...

— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French • Rev. James MacCaffrey

... endeavoured to express by dedicating the following sermons to his memory; and the offering is so far at least appropriate, in that the main work of his life was to spiritualize, not only our philosophy, but our theology; to raise them both above the empiricism into which they had long been dwindling, and to set them free from the technical trammels of logical systems. Whether he is as much studied by the genial young men of the present day, as he was twenty or thirty years ago, I have no adequate means of judging: ...

— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle

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