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
When your congregation zealously overestimates the epistemological functionality of empiricism in the work of logical positivism, you trap the conversation of science and consciousness in your lethally boring Vienna wagon-Circling.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2024
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
The discussion of experience/experiment claims that the English vocabulary fosters empiricism, while the French vocabulary is at odds with it; this would also seem to be true in this case.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Power Suffix: -ism
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