empirismn.

1624 A. Leighton Speculum Belli Sacri vi. 32 Meere exercise without reading is empyrisme: and meere reading without excercise is but imagination.

1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 37 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Chiron, with the most docile of his Centaurian Pupils, cultivated Botanomy not much later than Apollo did Empyrism.

1782 J. P. Macmahon tr. L. S. Mercier Paris in Miniature 167 The art of physic, therefore, now-a-days is no more than a bold empirism.

1832 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 165 Empirism, Philosophy of Experience or of Observation.

1852 J. R. Morell in J. R. Morell & A. Johnson tr. W. G. Tennemann Man. Hist. Philos. (rev. ed.) 67 Empirism..would derive all our knowledge ultimately from experience.

1878 Mind 3 194 We are now prepared to see what the question between Nativism and Empirism has to do with the ontological problem respecting the independent reality of space.

1906 F. E. Abbot Syllogistic Philos. I. ii. 64 Bacon, the founder of empiricism or empirism, and Descartes, the founder of rationalism.

1962 J. A. Ponsioen Anal. Social Change Reconsidered iii. 63 All three authors used that typical mixture of intuition and empirism, which is well known to-day as a phenomenological approach.

1992 Philos. Q. 42 396 He chronicles two parallel debates, between nativism and empirism, on the one hand, and between rationalism and empiricism, on the other.

2000 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 61 306 As a theory of the psychological origin of cognition in sensation, empirism is to be distinguished from empiricism, which is an epistemological theory of the warrant for cognition in sensory experience.

2005 A. Herkenrath in D. Aldridge Music Therapy vi. 145 According to his scientific empirism, any knowledge presumes sensory information.