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competing views within epistemology,
along with
rationalism and skepticism.
Empiricists argue that
empiricism is a more
reliable method of
finding the truth...
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logical empiricism or neo-positivism, was a
philosophical movement, in the
empiricist tradition, that
sought to
formulate a
scientific philosophy in
which philosophical...
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empiricism is a form of empiricism.
While it is
sometimes referred to as an
empiricist form of structuralism, its main proponent, Bas van Fra****en, has consistently...
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Under Small's tutelage,
Jefferson encountered the
ideas of the
British Empiricists,
including John Locke,
Francis Bacon, and
Isaac Newton.
Small introduced...
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concatenated or
continuous structure." The
postulate is a
basic statement of the
empiricist method: Our
theories shouldn't
incorporate supernatural or transempirical...
- made
written do****ents more
accessible and affordable. At the same time,
empiricist thought ****ociated with the
Scientific Revolution questioned the possibility...
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further expand. The
result of this
trend is a
philosophy of the quasi-
empiricist proof that can not be
considered infallible, but has a
probability attached...
- of
empiricist philosophers of his day. The
tendency of
rationalist philosophers toward refinement and
superficiality never satisfied an
empiricist temper...
- perception, introspection, memory, inference, and testimony.
According to
empiricists, all
knowledge is
based on some form of experience.
Rationalists reject...
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therefore directly grasp or
derive logical truths; on the
other hand,
empiricists like John
Locke emphasized that
knowledge is not
primarily innate and...