empirio-criticismn.
/ɪmˌpɪrɪəʊˈkrɪtᵻsɪz(ə)m/, /ɛmˌpɪrɪəʊˈkrɪtᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ᵻmˌpɪrioʊˈkrɪdəˌsɪz(ə)m/, /ɛmˌpɪrioʊˈkrɪdəˌsɪz(ə)m/ Philosophy (now historical).
A positivist theory of knowledge which rejects the dualism between the mental world of perception and the external world of matter, in favour of a monist view in which all knowledge derives from pure experience. Cf. neutral monism n. at neutral n. and adj. Compounds.The theory originated with the German philosopher Richard Avenarius (1843–96) and was also associated with the Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (1838–1916).
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empirio-criticism1897
Wiener Kreis1932
1897 Mind 6 449 (title) Richard Avenarius and his General Theory of Knowledge, Empiriocriticism.
1897 Mind 6 449 451 ‘Critical empiricism’..looks for the universal element in experience... Empiriocriticism, on the other hand, takes up the position that everything is experience when it has been stated as experienced by an individual—though it may be that..it is only experience for this one individual in question... This empiriocriticism also approaches experience critically, but it does not determine its concept of experience beforehand.
1928 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 38 239 The attention which he [sc. Lenin] thought it worth while to give to the subtle problems of idealism and empirio-criticism in his defense of orthodox Marxism.
1990 MLN 105 589 Kittler nowhere even suggests that empiriocriticism..was untenable as a theory of scientific praxis.
2006 Mod. Asian Stud. 40 122 Einstein was under the philosophical influence of Ernst Mach..whose empirio-criticism substantiates the ancient philosophical concept that ‘world consists only of our sensations’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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