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empiricism
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empiricism as in:  empiricism v. rationalism

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    It's also a reminder of the need for relentless empiricism in developing policies.†  (source)
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    Clouds rumbled across heaven and she lay beneath, and in the passage of shadow and yellow sunlight, the house murmured secrets to the truck, the traveler, who listened for only so long before its devout empiricism forced it away in wide-eyed panic to test such ideas among its fellows.†  (source)
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    Professor Abraham Flesser was my logic teacher, an avowed empiricist and an enemy of what he called "obscurantist Continental philosophies," which, he explained, included everything that had happened in German philosophy from Fichte to Heidegger, with the exception of Vaihinger and one or two others.†  (source)
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    Empiricism?†  (source)
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    And you are going to talk about them today, these empiricists?†  (source)
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    Hume would have answered that the eighteen-year-old had no thoughts whatsoever, and in giving this answer would have defined himself as an empiricist, one who believes all knowledge is derived exclusively from the senses.†  (source)
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    The minutes lingered, and the delay had seemed an hour to the adventurer in empiricism, when the Huron laid aside his pipe and drew his robe across his breast, as if about to lead the way to the lodge of the invalid.†  (source)
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    He was the next of the three British empiricists.†  (source)
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    An empiricist will derive all knowledge of the world from what the senses tell us.†  (source)
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    Moreover, during the past century both American culture and German culture have shown an unusually strong passion for science, technology, engineering, empiricism, social order, and efficiency.†  (source)
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    He stands out as the most important of the empiricists.†  (source)
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    An empiricist of our own century, Bertrand Russell, has provided a more grotesque example.†  (source)
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    So we usually make a distinction between British empiricism and Continental rationalism.†  (source)
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