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EMPIRICIST PHILOSOPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does empiricist philosophy mean? 

EMPIRICIST PHILOSOPHY (noun)
  The noun EMPIRICIST PHILOSOPHY has 1 sense:

1. (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experienceplay

  Familiarity information: EMPIRICIST PHILOSOPHY used as a noun is very rare.


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EMPIRICIST PHILOSOPHY (noun)


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Meaning:

(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

empiricism; empiricist philosophy; sensationalism

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))


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