Quine was a logical empiricist, which is a much broader category. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Fox Thinks Winter Chill Disproves Global Warming; Experts Disagree] Reference
In that case the rationalist will usually also be in favor of what is called free-will, and the empiricist will be a fatalist. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
He paused in thought for a good bit longer than I expected and replied that he was an "empiricist". From Wordnik.com. [Valuing Life, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
If that is the case, how does an non-modeling "empiricist" contribute?. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
This secular meaning is compatible with Wilson's "empiricist" view of morality. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart] Reference
It has inspired Kant with a peremptory refutation of "empiricist" theories of knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
In a 2002 interview, Benedict described himself as "always an empiricist, meaning I liked to write the facts - before we discovered they really didn't exist.". From Wordnik.com. [UC Berkeley Press Release] Reference
'empiricist' meaning your lover of facts in all their crude variety. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
( "empiricist") view is that there is no reason to postulate that capacity, or even that there are reasons not to postulate it, such as that it is "mysterious". From Wordnik.com. [Logical Truth] Reference
Obviously, no empiricist has ever been wrong either. From Wordnik.com. [Conservative Group Airs Ad Attacking Obama On Choice] Reference
But the merely empiricist view finds another supporter in Lossius. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
He cited Descartes as a classic violator of this empiricist maxim. From Wordnik.com. [METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION] Reference
Like Hegel, Blake rejected the empiricist thinkers of the seventeenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
James was an empiricist who wanted to believe in what could not be known through experience. From Wordnik.com. [Genuine Reality: A Life of William James] Reference
This is the very definition of an empiricist — one who bases decisions on observed reality. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Empirical Presidency] Reference
Soames, like all Forsytes, and the great majority of their countrymen, was a born empiricist. From Wordnik.com. [In Chancery] Reference
Hutcheson speaks of a moral “sense” because he accepts the empiricist theory of knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [MORAL SENSE] Reference
DOBBS: So in other words, you're an empiricist, Errol, you actually want to understand the facts. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2007] Reference
The former goes back to Plato and continues in many philosophers, both rationalist and empiricist. From Wordnik.com. [MORAL SENSE] Reference
Bain, which was lavishly praised by J.S. Mill as the highest point reached by the empiricist tradition. From Wordnik.com. [ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS] Reference
One potential target is a classic empiricist account of our idea of space, such as that found in Locke. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Views on Space and Time] Reference
The empiricist view is that the senses report a real or literal world that is like our conception of it. From Wordnik.com. [Defence of Poesie] Reference
In England, an empiricist and antitheoretical point of view prevailed even in such a critic as T.S. Eliot. From Wordnik.com. [LITERARY CRITICISM] Reference
Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), is a fruitful devel - opment of the empiricist approach of Hutcheson and. From Wordnik.com. [MORAL SENSE] Reference
Hume in the history of empiricist ethics, but he quite rightly distinguished his own theory from doctrines of. From Wordnik.com. [MORAL SENSE] Reference
Because Bill Gates is an empiricist and the condition of poverty, or at least many aspects of it, is empirical. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Geldof: Let Us See if Italy Keeps Faith With the World's Poor] Reference
Putnam; and finally the critique of the empiricist views of scientific theories and of scientific explanation by. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The first of these presuppositions harmonized very well with the empiricist doctrine of mental contents adopted by the. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
As in Hutcheson and Hume, moral and aesthetic judgments are coupled, and the theory arises from empiricist epistemology. From Wordnik.com. [MORAL SENSE] Reference
While Descartes is a rationalist and a realist about modality, Hume is an empiricist and an anti-realist about modality. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistemology of Modality] Reference
Because, you guessed it, I am an empiricist and, low IQ or not, I have eyes, ears and a capacity for storing information. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
K'ang was a scholar who belonged to the empiricist school of philosophy of the early Manchu period, the so-called Han school. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
But Wesley is empiricist as well as rationalist, and the judgment of authority can be upset by appeal to the court of experience. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)] Reference
Never - theless, it played an historical role as one manifestation of the naturalistic and empiricist traditions in Western thought. From Wordnik.com. [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference
Accordingly, David Hume's empiricist theory of the origin of knowledge in sense perception was sometimes called “impressionism.”. From Wordnik.com. [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference
This realization undermines the empiricist view of language and suggests that contrary to what we expect, all reference is metaphorical. From Wordnik.com. [Defence of Poesie] Reference
The frontiersman was a trial-and-error empiricist, who believed in his own ability to fathom the depths of the problems which plagued him. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography] Reference
And, ever the empiricist, Summers reported that a Google search revealed that "hits for economic depression have returned to baseline levels.". From Wordnik.com. [Robert Kuttner: Smoking the Green Shoots] Reference
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