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Empiricist

created by Webster 1913

(person) by Tem42 (4 s) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Fri Jan 12 2001 at 2:54:21

One who thinks that all human knowledge is gained through experience. This bit of epistemology is known, believe it or not, as Empiricism. John Locke, David Hume, and George Berkeley* were empiricists. John Stuart Mill was even more of one, as he did not even believe that the rules of math and logic could be known a priori.

See also Logical Positivism, Positivism, Verification Criteria of Meaning

If all of this sounds terribly wrong to you, you might be a Rationalist.


If those weren't enough for you, here's a list of some other famous empiricists.
Willard van Orman Quine
William James
Bertrand Russell
Clarence Irving Lewis
Rudolf Carnap
A.J. Ayer (Alfred Jules Ayer)


(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:22:10

Em*pir"i*cist (?), n.

An empiric.

 

© Webster 1913.


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