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experimentalism|ɛkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. prec. + -ism.]
1. a. The principles of the experimental school in philosophy or science; adherence to empirical doctrines. b. Empiricism in practice.
a1834Coleridge in Rem. (1836) III. 159 A scheme of physics and physiology compounded of Cartesian Mechanics and empiricism (for it was the credulous childhood of experimentalism). 1855Ess. Intuitive Mor. 157 If this principle of general rules cannot be logically grafted on experimentalism. 1860J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl xvi. 183 A ready votary of that credulous experimentalism which has filled the world with victims to medical imposture.
2. Experimental research; the conducting of experiments. Cf. experimentalist 1. rare.
1842Fraser's Mag. XXVI. 562 He has not the genius of experimentalism. |