Noun:

அறிவு அனைத்தும் அனுபவத்தால் அடையப்படுபவை என்னும் கோட்பாடு,

empiricism's Usage Examples:

A cosmopolitan on principle, and a convinced disbeliever in the ethics of his day, he comes very near to modern empiricism and especially to the modern Hedonist school.

This is as far removed as possible either from dualism or from empiricism.

On the critical side this teaching is now admittedly valid against the older empiricism, and the cogency of the reasoning by which his constructive theory is supported is generally recognized.

He strongly deprecated blind empiricism; the aphorism " rt ireipa o 4 aXepr t,) Kpicns XaXe ril " (whether it be his or not), tersely illustrates his position.

Yet Locke's ethical opinions have been widely misunderstood; since from a confusion between " innate ideas " and " intuitions," 'which has been common in recent ethical discussion, it has been supposed that the founder of English empiricism must necessarily have been hostile to " intuitional " ethics.

But Leibnitz's conception of the priority of spirit had too little foundation, and the different elements he sought to combine were too loosely related to one another to stand the strain of the two forces of empiricism and materialism that were opposed to his idealism.

Moral elements must enter into theism at some point: and, as against empiricism, intuitionalism is morally strong.

In ethics empiricism begins by recognizing that man possesses sensations, and so is liable to pleasures and pains.

8 Ordinary " inductive " empiricism shows that it has travelled far from this unprejudiced credulity when it asserts its hard determinism - uniform law, never broken, never capable of being broken.

Certainly not pure empiricism, or habits of objective observation.

In the beginning of the Encyklopadie he discusses the defects of dogmatism, empiricism, the philosophies of Kant and Jacobi.

To the theory of knowledge Spencer contributes a "transfigured realism," to mediate between realism and idealism, and the doctrine that "necessary truths," acquired in experience and congenitally transmitted, are a priori to the individual, though a posteriori to the race, to mediate between empiricism and apriorism.

Synonyms:

positivism, philosophical theory, British empiricism, empiricist philosophy, experimentalism, sensationalism, philosophical doctrine, logical positivism,

Antonyms:

unsensational, environmentalism, hereditarianism,