Hypertext Webster Gateway: "empiricism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Empiricism \Em*pir"i*cism\, n.
1. The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge
by observation and experiment.
2. Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere
experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of
principles; ignorant and unscientific practice;
charlatanry; quackery.
3. (Metaph.) The philosophical theory which attributes the
origin of all our knowledge to experience.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
empiricism
n : the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience [syn: {empiricist
philosophy}, {sensationalism}]
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