empiricism

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It was the result of "absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism", he said.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 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

In short, empiricism dominated philosophy and psychology until the second half of the 20th century, when nativist-friendly thinkers such as Noam Chomsky swung the pendulum back toward Plato.

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