Roosevelt, the Emperor of empiricism, never learned the lesson Keynes tried to teach.
If President-elect Obama truly does forecast a new Age of empiricism, then Larry is the best choice for Treasury.
Some say that the medical sect called empiricism is 236 the same as Scepticism.
Animal magnetism or mesmerism had been involved in mystery and empiricism.
That we all of us have feelings, empiricism feels quite sure.
Immediate data are the counters of experience, but they are the money of empiricism.
Natural philosophy is empiricism extended until it becomes absolute.
Is it not the real door of separation between empiricism and Rationalism?
Observation is the fundamental logical principle of empiricism.
What, then, according to him and in the system of empiricism, is the notion of substance?
1650s, in the medical sense, from empiric + -ism. General sense is from 1796.
Were I obliged to give a short name to the attitude in question, I should call it that of radical empiricism, in spite of the fact that such brief nicknames are nowhere more misleading than in philosophy. I say 'empiricism' because it is contented to regard its most assured conclusions concerning matters of fact as hypotheses liable to modification in the course of future experience; and I say 'radical,' because it treats the doctrine of monism itself as an hypothesis, and, unlike so much of the half way empiricism that is current under the name of positivism or agnosticism or scientific naturalism, it does not dogmatically affirm monism as something with which all experience has got to square. The difference between monism and pluralism is perhaps the most pregnant of all the differences in philosophy. [William James, preface to "The Sentiment of Rationality" in "The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy," 1897]
empiricism em·pir·i·cism (ěm-pēr'ĭ-sĭz'əm)
n.
Employment of empirical methods, as in science.
The practice of medicine that disregards scientific theory and relies solely on practical experience.
