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Empiricist

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Noun

1. empiricist

a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Empiricist

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noun
1. philosophy
the doctrine that all knowledge of matters of fact derives from experience and that the mind is not furnished with a set of concepts in advance of experience
Compare intuitionism, rationalism
2. 
the use of empirical methods
3. 
medical quackery; charlatanism

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Empiricist

see synonyms of empiricist
noun
1. 
experimental method; search for knowledge by observation and experiment
2. 
a. 
a disregarding of scientific methods and relying solely on experience
b.  Archaic
quackery
3.  Philosophy
the theory that sense experience is the only source of knowledge

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Empiricist

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n.
1. The view that experience, especially of the senses, is the only source of knowledge.
2.
a. Employment of empirical methods, as in science.
b. An empirical conclusion.
3. The practice of medicine that disregards scientific theory and relies solely on practical experience.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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