Crossword-Solution: EMPIRICIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Empiricist | n. | An empiric. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “EMPIRICIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| John Locke, philosophically | 1 answer |
| follower of a theory which states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience | 1 answer |
| GUESSER | 25 answers |
| experimenter | 35 answers |
| Follower | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
EZEMAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EMPIRICIST (5)
This is our own empiricist criterion; and this criterion the stoutest insisters on supernatural origin have also been forced to use in the end.
Skepticism cannot, therefore, be ruled out by any set of thinkers as a possibility against which their conclusions are secure; and no empiricist ought to claim exemption from this universal liability.
After those visits to the Restaurant Bretagne began, other visits ceased—without, indeed, any definite decision, for Soames, like all Forsytes, and the great majority of their countrymen, was a born empiricist.
But the point is that it tells of a | highly successful, highly empiricist (in | Bacon's and Kant's meaning of | phenomenological empiricism) approach to | the "understanding" of the "unwritten | laws" of cell theory and genetics.
For, when employed by the empiricist, understanding is always upon its proper ground of investigation—the field of possible experience, the laws of which it can explore, and thus extend its cognition securely and with clear intelligence without being stopped by limits in any direction.
Quotes with EMPIRICIST (3)
Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates. I am a Christ-myth advocate and am pursuing research into how Christianity could have begun without a historical Jesus of Nazareth. I am married with one daughter and three grandchildren.
As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries-not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer. For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I con…
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2014).