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EMPIRICIST PHILOSOPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
Synonyms:
empiricism; empiricist philosophy; sensationalism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("empiricist philosophy" is a kind of...):
philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)
Domain category:
philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "empiricist philosophy"):
British empiricism (the predominant philosophical tradition in Great Britain since the 17th century)
experimentalism (an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles)
logical positivism; positivism (the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation))
