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empiricist, n. and a.|ɛmˈpɪrɪsɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A. n.
a. An upholder of philosophical empiricism.
b. One who follows empirical methods.
1698–1712Shaftesbury Phil. Regimen (1900) 207 The prescriptions of the vulgar-wise, like those of the Empiricists. They know only the symptom; apply only to the symptom. 1857T. E. Webb Intell. Locke i. 17 Kant..regarded Aristotle as the head of the Empiricists. 1875N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 469 Berkeley..a consistent empiricist. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 5 Medical men have been designated as Empiricists and Rationalists in matters of pathology. 1955Sci. Amer. Aug. 86/1 Now, through Bertrand Russell, almost all British and American empiricists are to some degree disciples of Hume.
B. adj. Of, or relating to, or characterized by, philosophical empiricism.
1871H. Sidgwick in Academy 15 Nov. 521/1 It is impossible to state more boldly the empiricist view of geometry. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. vii. 195 Empiricist writers are very fond of emphasizing one great set of delusions which language inflicts on the mind. 1907― Pragmatism ii. 51 Pragmatism represents a perfectly familiar attitude in philosophy, the empiricist attitude. 1953H. H. Price Thinking & Exper. viii. 252 In any Empiricist theory of thinking..there has to be a doctrine of cashability. 1965N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax 206 There is no justification for the common assumption that there is an asymmetry between rationalist and empiricist views. |