word
empiricism
em-PEER-ih-siz-um
ɛmˈpɪrɪsɪzəmListen
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empiricism
Dictionary meaning
the epistemological doctrine that all knowledge of the external world derives ultimately from sensory experience rather than from innate ideas or pure reason; classical British empiricists including Locke, Berkeley, and Hume argued against the rationalist claim that the mind brings substantial a priori knowledge to experience; in the philosophy of science, empiricism underpins the view that scientific theories must be evaluated against observable evidence and that unobservable theoretical entities should be regarded with suspicion
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