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1. (n.) empiricism
empirical method or practice.
2. empiricism
the philosophic doctrine that all knowledge is derived from sense experience.
3. empiricism
undue reliance upon experience, as in medicine; quackery.
4. empiricism
a conclusion that is arrived at empirically.
Etymology: (1650–60)
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| Definition of 'empiricism' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism
(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
2. (noun) empiricism
the application of empirical methods in any art or science
3. (noun) quackery, empiricism
medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) empiricism
the method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment
2. (noun) empiricism
specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery
3. (noun) empiricism
the philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. empiricism
a philosophical term applied to the theory that all knowledge is derived from the senses and experience alone, to the rejection of the theory of innate ideas; Locke, in modern times, is the great representative of the school that advocates this doctrine supported by Aristotle.
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. empiricism
One of the principal schools of medical philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome. It developed in Alexandria between 270 and 220 B.C., the only one to have any success in reviving the essentials of the Hippocratic concept. The Empiricists declared that the search for ultimate causes of phenomena was vain, but they were active in endeavoring to discover immediate causes. The "tripod of the Empirics" was their own chance observations (experience), learning obtained from contemporaries and predecessors (experience of others), and, in the case of new diseases, the formation of conclusions from other diseases which they resembled (analogy). Empiricism enjoyed sporadic continuing popularity in later centuries up to the nineteenth. (From Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p186; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)
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