empiricism

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Kim attributed Thursday's accident, which took place at a shipyard in the eastern port city of Chongjin, to "absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism".

From BBC • May 21, 2025

Although the Neoplatonists did not value Aristotle’s empiricism, they did not completely cast his ideas aside.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

But not everyone agrees with this emerging consensus, and a new wave of empiricism has emerged over the past decade.

From Scientific American • Mar. 7, 2023

“It’s potentially very healthy if these investigations are animated by an empiricism — an ability to get to the facts,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2023

Experimentation thus required a deeply problematic balancing act between Platonic idealism and a crude empiricism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton