| 单词 | empirical philosophy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasempirical philosophy empirical philosophy n. (a) the pursuit of scientific knowledge by means of observation and experiment rather than theoretical analysis or speculation (now rare and historical); cf. empiricism n. 6; (b) an approach to philosophy based on the belief that sense experience rather than abstract reason is the foundation of all knowledge of reality; = empiricism n. 5a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [noun] physiology1564 empirism1716 empirical philosophy1733 empiricism1796 descendentalism1833 1733 P. Shaw tr. F. Bacon Novum Organum i. iii, in Philos. Wks. II. 362 The Empirical Philosophy [L. Philosophiae genus Empiricum] produces Opinions more deform'd and monstrous, than either the sophistical or the rational. 1795 J. A. O'Keeffe Ess. Progress Human Understanding 47 When philosophy..places the grounds of its proofs in primary reason or in things known before, and not from experience, it is then called, in the Kantean terms, Pure Elementary Philosophy; but when otherwise, from experience, it is called Empirical or Experimental Philosophy. 1876 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 10 249 [Bacon] is the founder of empirical philosophy rather than induction in natural science, although he laid the greatest stress upon the value of useful discoveries. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xiv. 374 According to the empirical philosophy..all ideals are matters of relation. 1987 M. Warnock Memory ii. 15 Empirical philosophy having as its aim to show that knowledge must..be wholly derived from experience. 2010 Scotsman (Nexis) 22 Oct. 33 The Scottish Enlightenment..was powered by empirical philosophy, the idea that all knowledge is deduced from experience. < as lemmas |
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