| 单词 | empiricism |
| 例句 | The discussion of experience/experiment claims that the English vocabulary fosters empiricism, while the French vocabulary is at odds with it; this would also seem to be true in this case. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Experimentation thus required a deeply problematic balancing act between Platonic idealism and a crude empiricism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mr. James is best when he applies his knife’s-edge empiricism to the murkiest of crime puzzles. Books of The Times: Crunch the Numbers; Solve a Famous Murder 2011-06-02T21:24:11Z “Magic in the Moonlight” revisits a plethora of Allen’s cardinal themes, subjects and settings, including but not limited to magic, fraud, self-deception, Twenties-era France and the perennial argument between empiricism and faith. ‘You know, I’m never happy’: Woody Allen discusses new ‘Magic in the Moonlight’ The election was a victory for gut instinct over empiricism, for cynicism over reason. From Michael Lewis, the Story of Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About the Way We Think 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Many doctors were painted with that same realism and empiricism in Renaissance Italy – as if a portrait of a doctor should be clinically exact. A picture of health: art's warts-and-all view of doctors 2013-01-08T15:54:05Z At William and Mary, Jefferson’s tastes were more eclectic, shaped by the empiricism of teachers steeped in the Scottish Enlightenment and by a preference for Greek philosophers over Romans. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Just as many ghost stories must start with a death, Dickey makes the choice to start with a dense and viscous introduction, light on the empiricism at which he excels. Colin Dickey explores American's haunted mansions in 'Ghostland' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z A stunning group of three Turner seascapes, in particular, paints the Romantics as inquisitive students of nature whose awe-triggering sublime vistas were firmly grounded in empiricism. Review: ‘The Critique of Reason’ Revisits What Romantic Art Means 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The Man of Sorrows fell out of fashion in the mid-17th century as humanist empiricism eclipsed orthodox faith as the driving force of European collective imagination. Art Review: The Enduring Power of an Icon 2011-03-31T21:48:50Z Stephen Knight, professor of English literature at Cardiff University and one of the world's leading authorities on the literary evolution of Robin Hood, calls the search for the real outlaw "vulgar empiricism". Looking for Robin 2010-04-14T07:00:00Z As the wistful title of the documentary indicates, he moves in a realm beyond empiricism, in a world of dreams and stories. | 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams': Herzog Finds His Inner Cave Man 2011-04-28T21:43:04Z Darwin is the finest fruit of English empiricism. Natural selection: give me Darwin over Dawkins any day 2010-09-07T11:43:00Z If Harman is enlisting Lovecraft as a foot soldier against bland, realist empiricism, he has to prove that Lovecraft’s apparent failures to describe were a form of intellectual honesty rather than simply bad, clumsy style. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z The journal aims to bring some empiricism, as well as a global perspective, to the discussion. Academia does porn 2013-05-03T20:12:00Z It may not be definitive proof, but I feel a surge of satisfaction at this small victory for vulgar empiricism, and head outside to catch the bus to Leeds. Looking for Robin 2010-04-14T07:00:00Z The prominent philosopher of science is an advocate for hard-nosed empiricism, and as a leading New Atheist he calls for naturalistic explanations of religion. The end of religion as we know it: Why churches can no longer hide the truth 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z During the European Renaissance and early modern period, biological thought was revolutionized in Europe by a renewed interest in empiricism and the discovery of many novel organisms. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Descartes combined deductive reasoning with empiricism, the acquisition of knowledge from sensory experiences, to establish the foundations of the scientific method. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The Greek philosopher Aristotle had stressed the study of the world through direct observation, a method known as empiricism. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Only Democrats, they insisted, could be trusted to defer to experts in a crisis, restore empiricism to its proper place, and safeguard the environment and public health against the troglodytic masses. Why Steve Bannon and Alex Jones love RFK Jr. 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z But not everyone agrees with this emerging consensus, and a new wave of empiricism has emerged over the past decade. Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z “It’s potentially very healthy if these investigations are animated by an empiricism — an ability to get to the facts,” he said. Border, Bidens, COVID: House GOP casts wide net in probes 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Democracy, it's worth remembering, emerged as an Enlightenment ideal, and cannot be separated from other Enlightenment values, such as the importance of empiricism and the value of critical thinking. Call it the Conspiracy Theory Congress: Things are about to get dangerously weird on Capitol Hill 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Although the Neoplatonists did not value Aristotle’s empiricism, they did not completely cast his ideas aside. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Perhaps to ask for evidence for this claim or a way to rule in or out other explanations of these phenomena is to manifest the very empiricism he opposes. Review | How the richest shield themselves from danger — at our expense 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z In short, empiricism dominated philosophy and psychology until the second half of the 20th century, when nativist-friendly thinkers such as Noam Chomsky swung the pendulum back toward Plato. Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z In the book, Charles took issue with “empiricism,” the view that since science cannot prove the existence of God, God must not exist. King Charles III may bring new approach to ‘Defender of the Faith’ 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z While rationalism and empiricism seem to be making opposing claims about truth, each has value, and the two can work together. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z This shift—from seeing the Bible as the source of all received wisdom to trusting observation or empiricism—is one of the major outcomes of the era of early globalization. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z This view has influenced thinking in Christian and Persian philosophies, British empiricism and Marxist doctrine. How the Brain ‘Constructs’ the Outside World 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Astounding leaps of imagination and insight — coupled with a laser like focus on empiricism and experimentation — have brought forth countless wonders of insight into the workings of the universe we find ourselves in. Risk aversion is ruining science 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z This approach is called empiricism, or the experimental method. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hermeneutics rejects both the absolute power of rational thought propagated by Descartes and the empiricism promoted by other Enlightenment thinkers. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Several ideas dominated Enlightenment thought, including rationalism, empiricism, progressivism, and cosmopolitanism. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Facts are only persuasive to people who believe that truth and empiricism matter. GOP voters aren't acting like people who believe the Big Lie about "rigged" elections 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Under such circumstances, education becomes more than an obsession with accountability schemes and market values, and an unreflective immersion in the crude empiricism of a data-obsessed market-driven society. How higher education can win the war against neoliberalism and white supremacy 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z The essence of science is empiricism, or the understanding that knowledge is acquired from what we can perceive using our senses. Today's anti-mask activists have much in common with anti-handwashing doctors of the 1840s 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The Epicureans, like Aristotle, embraced empiricism, which means that they believed that all knowledge was derived from sense experience. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z But the German chancellor, now in the waning days of a titanic 16 years in power, veered away from her trademark empiricism two years ago when she spoke to an American graduating class. The unassuming power of Germany's Angela Merkel. What does she leave behind? 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z But because they keep their data private, for reasons both good and bad, we spend a lot of time arguing about subjects for which we often have little grounding in empiricism. Why these Facebook research scandals are different 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Some will say it is empiricism: observation and description of the world. If You Say ‘Science Is Right,’ You’re Wrong 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z What about the charge — partly vindicated, I admit, by the small number of radical postmodernists in our ranks — that humanists in academia downplay “empiricism and evidence,” as The Lancet put it? Opinion | Medical School Needs a Dose of the Humanities 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z This view was the basis of the revival of empiricism in 18th- century British thought and scientific practice. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z A review of Everylegalvote.com shows an attempt to delegitimize the election under a veneer of empiricism by drawing on murky and debunked theories. A website funded by right-wing groups gains followers with debunked voting fraud claims. 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z His other passion, aside from Modern art, was researching the writings of Francis Bacon, 17th century British “father of empiricism,” including speculation on his authorship of Shakespeare’s plays. Review: Reconstructing one of America's greatest art-filled houses 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z At once driven by claims of biological determinism and supported by the authoritarian heft of British empiricism, Francis Galton pioneered an insidious form of human scrutiny that would come to be known as eugenics. Darwin, Expression, and the lasting legacy of eugenics 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z Dr. Jones said he believed the developers of the tools, who often are academic researchers, are motivated by empiricism, not racism. Race Is Used in Many Medical Decision-Making Tools 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z In the 19th and 20th centuries, scholars began to challenge both empiricism and rationalism. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z One historian of science compared the situation to the 17th century, noting that “we are living in a moment of ground-zero empiricism, in which almost everything is up for grabs” — including, it seems, non-scientific explanations. Conspiracy theorists say 5G causes novel coronavirus, so now they’re harassing and attacking UK telecoms engineers 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Conservative-leaning voters in a study run by academics are going to guess, with some accuracy, that the people running the study put a high value on academic values like empiricism and open-mindedness. There's no "one weird trick" to get conservatives to vote for Democrats. So forget it 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z My training in the social sciences implicitly borrows methods of positivism or empiricism that do not just correspond to the human person in an integral fashion. Engineering, Beauty and a Longing for the Infinite 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z I consider that very closely related to the lack of commitment to empiricism, the lack of a cultural practice of attention to evidence, rigor, analysis, facts. A Penn Law Professor Wants to Make America White Again 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Ibn Sina’s epistemology—and in particular, his development of an empiricism that advances far beyond the Epicureans and is, in fact, comparable to that of John Locke—has received less attention. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z If moderation, compromise and civility are Wehner’s political values, modesty, empiricism and competence are his governing ones. Review | How would we repair the damage in a post-Trump America? 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Under such circumstances, education becomes more than an obsession with accountability schemes, an audit culture, market values, and an unreflective immersion in the crude empiricism of a data-obsessed, market-driven society. Against the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Trump, Part 2: We can still fight back 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z Her study beds the manuscripts in early-modern empiricism, and beautifully complements the plates — a jewel box of exquisitely rendered sunfish, chameleons, bees, an Indian elephant and more. Profits for the people, six millennia of cities, and the roots of sickness and health: Books in brief 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z He pursued not a policy but an instinct, following emotion rather than empiricism. Opinion | On the border, Trump alone couldn’t fix it. In fact, he broke it. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Under such circumstances, education becomes more than an obsession with accountability schemes, testing, market values and an unreflective immersion in the crude empiricism of a data-obsessed market-driven society. How higher education has been weaponized in the age of Trump — and how it can be redeemed 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z There is a growing divide between those who trumpet empirical evidence and those who question the cultural and social conditions to which empiricism remains blind. Sam Harris, the new atheist with a spiritual side 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z No surprise that terms such as “hopeful empiricism” and “sanctified reason” make cameos throughout this book. Review | How America learned to think for itself 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Other disciplines didn’t always uphold the granular empiricism of Einstein’s general theory, but they tended to get the sweeping rhetoric just right. Wild Speculation Isn’t Worth Much. A ‘Theory,’ However... 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z It is hard to say definitively what accounts for this incongruity between empiricism and ideology. Despite thorough debunking, neoliberal housing politics prevail in the Bay Area 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Martin Lister’s drawing of a strawberry finch reveals a skilled illustrator who “performed a type of embodied empiricism”. How seventeenth-century sisters broke the mould on scientific illustration 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, what we’re left with is the latest in a series of Orwellian attempts from Trump World to undermine empiricism. 'Truth isn't truth': Trump World targets our understanding of reality 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The war on empiricism is disorienting, though by all appearances, that’s precisely the point of the effort. Defending Trump's lies, Giuliani says facts are 'in the eye of the beholder' 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The same empiricism led him to keep urging Virgin Galactic engineers not to be spooked by the past. Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z "It's a mix of intuition and empiricism and some physically observed laws," says Isaac Held, Schneider's mentor and a scientist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, a prominent modeling center in Princeton, New Jersey. Science insurgents plot a climate model driven by artificial intelligence 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Graeber's politics are radical, and those who love their jobs in corporate law will likely object to what the New Yorker described as his "ad hoc empiricism." If you think your job is pointless, it probably is 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Trump’s overt offensive against journalism is outrageous, but it’s part of a presidential war on empiricism. Trump quietly acknowledged the real reason he attacks the free press 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z On left and right, our theologies need to be tethered to empiricism. Opinion | Are you anti-GMO? Then you’re anti-science, too. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z He trusts his own experience — his version of what William James called “radical empiricism.” The 4.1.18 Issue 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z James called “radical empiricism”—swears, not a lot, just enough. Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z A Trumpist Republican party, meanwhile, is often hostile to experts, empiricism and well-educated voters. Donald Trump may make some businessfolk cringe 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z And the best way to get at Absolute Truth is simply to drop all thought and pay close attention to immediate perception, aka Zen meditation, aka radical empiricism. Opinion | The Edges of Reason 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z And now, to protect Trump, the right has expanded its war on empiricism to that most conservative of institutions, the F.B.I. Opinion | Don’t Believe the Liberal F.B.I. 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z She also occasionally trades empiricism for hyperbole, as when she declares: “I don’t think we would have made it as the world’s most populous primate if we hadn’t learned to swear.” The power of profane language 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Did you ever think the government of the world’s biggest military and economic power would reject not just science but also empiricism itself, preferring to use made-up “alternative facts” as the basis for major decisions? Opinion | Trump’s first year was even worse than feared 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z The circle became the center of a movement called logical empiricism and shaped modern scientific thinking, enduring in an anxiety-ridden Austria on the cusp of the Second World War. The Last Man Who Knew Every thing: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z This intellectual powerhouse developed the scientific world view known as logical empiricism — an assertion of the pre-eminence of scientific knowledge and a rejection of metaphysics. How Viennese scientists fought the dogma, propaganda and prejudice of the 1930s Six months later, it’s clear that the problem extends beyond the White House: Republican policymakers in general are targeting empiricism with unnerving vigor. Reality-based governing keeps getting in Republicans' way 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z But so did the “focused empiricism” of military medical teams who made incremental improvements to their treatment of the wounded. Trauma medicine has learned lessons from the battlefield 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The information and technological revolution we're experiencing, needs to spawn another movement which looks to empiricism and rational thought, not Republican political dogma, to counter the IT revolutions unforeseen opportunity costs. Opinion | We Used to Build Things 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Having rejected his early Jesuit education for Darwinism and empiricism, Conan Doyle himself was close to the ongoing revolution. Fiction: The science in Sherlock Holmes : Nature : Nature Research 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z This is what happens when you separate facts from values, empiricism from morality, science from the humanities. The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z To be a Republican today you have to have complete disdain for facts, reality, empiricism, the scientific method, or any of the other underpinnings of the Enlightenment. The greatest story too rarely told: America is an oligarchy 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z But officially the opposition claimed to be all about hardheaded policy empiricism. The outsized outcry over Betsy DeVos 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The makeup of Trump’s Cabinet reflects a growing disdain in America for intellectual elitism and a distrust of scientific empiricism. What Trump’s whiter, less academic Cabinet says about race and class in America 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, the patterns are becoming more susceptible to empiricism—to a science of surveillance, analysis, and iterative correction. The Heroism of Incremental Care 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z This empiricism is central to his analysis of social policy, too. Tom Sowell, a Fearless Contrarian, Puts Down the Pen 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z But all this was done under the broad mantle of empiricism, the belief that truth emanated from evidence and experience, not from a priori reasoning, intuition or faith — even faith in self. Trump’s most important new partner: The intelligence community 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z It spoke to whether science should be based on empiricism or explanatory hypothesis — a question that had exercised Newton and Robert Boyle in the seventeenth century. In retrospect: A New System of Chemical Philosophy : Nature : Nature Research 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s telling that professional academics, committed to ruthless empiricism and logic, are reduced to mystical, even spiritual platitudes when pressed to explain their opposition to grad-student unionism. The Laborers of Academia 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z By any fair measure, when a party and its presidential candidate are as hostile towards empiricism as they are towards their political rivals, it’s not a healthy sign. Team Trump has no use for reliable crime data 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z He trained in economics at the University of Chicago, where professors stressed empiricism and measurement through statistics, so data carry weight with him. Tom Sowell, a Fearless Contrarian, Puts Down the Pen 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z “They were theorists,” he told a University of Minnesota interviewer, describing the “nurture” partisans, particularly elite researchers on the East Coast, who he said initially dismissed his work as “dustbowl empiricism.” Irving Gottesman, psychologist who upended views on schizophrenia, dies at 85 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Medical empiricism In the late 19th century, many American doctors warned against too much exercise, believing that overexertion caused a vast array of ailments, including heart disease and depression. 5 major advances we can thank bikes for 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z His signature assertion that “the sky, too, belongs to the Landscape” can be read as a call for empiricism — a conviction that science can, in fact, measure out the mystical. The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z The origins of no other nation are as wholly dependent on the empiricism of the Enlightenment, as answerable to evidence. The Age of Facts Is Over 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z “History is gossip, but the trick is determining which gossip is history”—a line that accommodates postmodern skepticism and traditional empiricism. Gore Vidal’s Delusions of Candor 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Carson’s appreciation for evidence and empiricism are certainly alarming, but it makes it easier to dismiss his rhetoric as being garden-variety bonkers. Ben Carson asks, 'Gravity, where did it come from?' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z On some level, then, the emerging tension between chronos and kairos was also the struggle between empiricism and, for want of a better word, spirituality. How We Measured Time Before Clocks 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Here, ideology subsumes empiricism, and the inevitable conflict between science and religion comes to the fore. Ideology Subsumes Empiricism in Pope's Climate Encyclical 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z People who care about civil society have two choices: find some epistemic principles other than empiricism on which everyone can agree or else find some method other than reason with which to defend empiricism. The Age of Facts Is Over 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z I want to follow-up on the conversation about ideology and empiricism with Russ Roberts, Noah Smith, and Paul Krugman. Empirical And Ideological Skepticism 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Despite Americans’ overall religiosity, our embrace of myth and superstition, our surprisingly enduring movements against evolution, vaccines, and climate change, we are a country infatuated with empiricism. Big Data’s big libertarian lie: Facebook, Google and the Silicon Valley ethical overhaul we need 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Pick the issue – national security, education, immigration, et al – and for much of today’s GOP, empiricism and efficacy just isn’t that important. 'Even if it worked, I would oppose it' 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Epicurus wrote a 37-volume treatise on empiricism called On Nature, perhaps the most comprehensive basis in classical times for the modern notion of learning through experimentation. Scroll up, scroll up 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The far-right lawmakers have heard the criticisms about Republicans’ hostility towards research and empiricism, but Paul and Smith wanted to make it clear that, at least from their narrow perspective, the GOP isn’t “attacking science.” Climate debate takes a farcical turn in GOP-led Senate 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z As such, it is even more critical that we use the insights of mind science and empiricism to drive our strategy towards racial equity. The state of race and policing reform 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z It’s hard not to wish that Todes had been a bit less devoted to his subject’s prodigious empiricism. How Everyone Gets Pavlov Wrong 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The right’s war on empiricism is getting worse, and it’s just not healthy. The border bombshell that's completely wrong 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Such systemic hostility towards empiricism just isn’t healthy. Unemployment truthers see new conspiracy 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z This is a literally color-blind society, its black-and-white contours reflecting not only the Elders’ monotonously authoritarian sensibility, but Lowry’s own conveniently Manichean imagination, in which emotions and empiricism are at constant zero-sum odds. ‘The Giver’ movie review: Lois Lowry’s award-winning novel comes to life That was logical enough until the late 17th century, when the sighting of black swans in Australia revealed the limits of empiricism and the dangers of overconfidence in the predictability of life. HAYDEN: Sarajevo, black swans and today 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Despite his emphasis over the years on empiricism, Murray mystically refers to “soul mates” twice. Dear Dr. Murray, Washington Is Not America's Pulse Point 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z There is a nasty tendency for those arguing for their case to adopt a stance of enlightened empiricism on one issue to devolve into empirical nihilism on another. Neil deGrasse Tyson vs. the right: “Cosmos,” Christians, and the battle for American science 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Alas, there is a gap between the high-minded empiricism all around, and the nasty tone of political debate. Lexington: When facts are weapons 2014-05-01T15:00:12Z It’s quite easy to imagine the potential here has been exaggerated, and a core point about the importance of theory in a lot of empiricism is undeniable. Don't Underestimate Big Data 2014-04-16T00:40:00Z The failure of Google Flu Trends, in his view, emphasizes the perils of unmoored empiricism. Why Causation Is (Often) Not Causation - The Retro Humility Of Empiricism 2014-03-31T17:42:00Z This trait is now analyzed and dissected in business schools, and, if the empiricism is to be trusted, what appears to undergird this necessary characteristic is an uncanny inability to become frustrated. The Idea: A Young Inventor, Finding the Crunch Factor 2014-02-22T15:22:45Z The point that even as we endeavor to understand the basic biology driving disease, we should also actively maximize the opportunities to benefit from empiricism and serendipity. Do Drug Companies Suffer From Premature Translation - And Can Google's Calico Cure It? 2013-11-23T00:31:00Z The real trouble began when empiricism discovered—and, worse, began to depict—a detached world, one that followed its own laws and required its own maps. A World Without Maps 2013-10-30T01:32:46Z Indeed it is the forecast driven nature of machine learning that makes it so appealing as a branch of empiricism. Don't Underestimate Big Data 2014-04-16T00:40:00Z Those I admire most combine rigorous empiricism with a resistance to absolute answers. Is "social science" an oxymoron? Will that ever change? 2013-04-04T23:15:00.353Z This mention of the difference between empiricism and theory reminds me of a conversation I once had with a colleague that bears on our discussion of elegance and beauty in chemistry. Truth and beauty in chemistry 2013-01-25T00:15:10.973Z Hobbes’s logic sounds quite modern—and it did inspire the conception of empiricism, the notion that all knowledge comes through the senses – surely a scientific-sounding contention for our internal life. The birth of experimental psychology: How do we measure beginnings? 2012-07-31T14:45:00.217Z In short, the vaunted “science-driven” forces of the Left were driven more by ideology than by empiricism. Rep. Issa Exposes the Obama Administration's Green Jobs Scam 2012-06-07T16:05:07Z In the beginning of the Encyklop�die he discusses the defects of dogmatism, empiricism, the philosophies of Kant and Jacobi. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z This is the system of Kant, and thus that system avoids not only empiricism, but scepticism as well, though commonly confounded with it. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Science in all its empiricism should see the world and what it studies for what it is — beautiful, pained, troubled and triumphant. Science, meet life: Why I write on addiction in the Bronx 2012-04-11T19:15:00.187Z Strangely enough, we find this approval of political empiricism and disbelief in any other guidance, in the world of science also. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Intellectual weakness, frequently brought on by excesses, has proved a rich source to empiricism; hence the belief in mystic and supernatural agencies, and the power of certain nostrums. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Both in theory and practice it here seemed to supply precisely the counter-active to prevailing tendencies towards empiricism and individualism that was required. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z How succeed in retaining as an à priori law what empiricism declares to be only an acquired habit? The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Nor are the biologists quite satisfied with Spencer's reconciliation, between empiricism and apriorism, for, in the form he gave it, there is the tacit assumption that results of experience are as such transmissible. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z The misquote actually suggests an interesting intellectual position: radical computer-aided empiricism. Data, Data Everywhere, Not a Byte to Drink 2012-02-24T21:59:12Z They themselves are grovelling and groping in the dark whenever they pretend to fly from the trammels of empiricism, and, like our forefathers, account for what is unaccountable. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Till then all was empiricism in this department. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z In the first instance, then, Hume’s philosophical work is to be regarded as the attempt to supply for empiricism in psychology a consistent, that is, a logically developed theory of knowledge. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z On this side he allowed empiricism to construct his wall, and left incautiously an opening which the keen-sighted foe perceived at once. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z When British empiricism was pressed to the limit, considerable doubt and scepticism resulted; and the Scottish common sense philosophy was, in large part, a counter response. A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) 2012-01-01T03:00:09.283Z However, this rationalism, which arose in opposition to empiricism, kept the upper hand, and Euclid constructed the science of mathematics in accordance with it. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z It began to repudiate the transcendentalism that made pantheism, and the empiricism which made Nature a god, and now it strives to justify itself by a futile attempt to reconcile God with human fancy. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z The weak points in Hume’s empiricism are so admirably realized by the author himself that it is only fair to quote his own summary in the Appendix to the Treatise. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z As we know, empiricism since Hume has answered the last question in the affirmative, and rationalism since Kant has answered it in the negative. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z 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. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Dewey begins his argument, in "The Psychological Standpoint," with a reference to Professor Green's remark that the psychological standpoint is what marks the difference between transcendentalism and British empiricism. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z My philosophy is what I call a radical empiricism, a pluralism, a "tychism," which represents order as being gradually won and always in the making. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The third is the type of completed empiricism or scepticism, holding that no argument, either from reason or experience, can transcend experience, and consequently that no proof of God’s existence is at all possible. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z It is, therefore,—to bring Hume's doctrine to a conclusion that the father of modern empiricism himself did not draw,—a species of temporal contiguity. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z You might also call it institutional meltdown, the decline of credibility, the end of empiricism. Are We Losing the Race with Catastrophe? 2011-11-03T14:23:04Z Both empiricism and intuitionalism, though in very different ways, deny the continuity of the moralizing process. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z I am sure that, be it in the end judged true or false, it is essential to the evolution of clearness in philosophic thought that someone should defend a pluralistic empiricism radically. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z As his empiricism is worthless, so is his rationality. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z It is evident in what light all these dynamic conceptions appear, when looked at from the standpoint of consistent extreme empiricism. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z We are finite emotional creatures, but empiricism helps us to understand where our weak points are, and possibly overcome them. Time - and brain chemistry - heal all wounds 2011-10-25T01:45:07.880Z The principle of immediate empiricism, Dewey says, furnishes no positive truth. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z This, it seems to me, breaks down radical empiricism, which I hate to do; and I can't yet clearly see my way out of the quandary. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z For much, on the one hand, that it may seem should have been excluded, and on the other, for giving place to ideas nearer to empiricism than to science, I am also responsible. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z For my own part, the right seems to be on the side of Comte and his recent followers in showing the old nomenclature to be worn out, if viewed from the standpoint of empiricism. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Not exactly the traditional human resources department, this group enthusiastically pursues the kind of creative empiricism that Mr. Lewis documents, Ms. Rozovsky says, and it hires M.B.A.’s and Ph.D.’s to help. Off the Shelf: After ?Moneyball,? Data Guys Are Triumphant 2011-10-01T21:19:12Z This type of idealism does, in fact, hold a position intermediate between English empiricism and German transcendentalism. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z Here is another contribution to my radical empiricism, which I send hot on the heels of the last one. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Intricate plotting, marvelous mysteries, clear-cut science without empiricism, speculative reasoning, sermonizing, historical facts, and bold theorizing make up the tissue of the story, while the spirit of Etidorhpa, the spirit of love, pervades it all.... Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z However, this agreement of two opposing views is no proof that empiricism is on the right road. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The famed psychologist, James, first took it up, seeing that his ‘radical empiricism’ substantially answered to the writer’s definition, albeit with a certain difference in point of view. The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey 2011-09-29T02:00:12.190Z Immediate empiricism," he says, "postulates that things—anything, everything, in the ordinary or non-technical use of the term 'thing'—are what they are experienced as. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z Of course, we must avoid empiricism as far as we can. Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions 2011-09-17T02:00:31.747Z In the history of the progress of human knowledge, out and out myths accompany the first stage of empiricism; while "hidden essences" and "occult forces" mark its second stage. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z Moreover, the scruples that we found arising from the standpoint of empiricism against the assumption of forces are not to the point. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Russell, J. E.—Some difficulties with the epistemology of pragmatism and radical empiricism. The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey 2011-09-29T02:00:12.190Z The descriptive method here advocated does not differ, as an actual mode of procedure, from that of Dewey's later empiricism. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z He is the real author of empiricism in philosophy and the realistic methods of modern times. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z In turn, modern industry is almost wholly a matter of applied science; year by year the domain of routine and crude empiricism is narrowed by the translation of scientific discovery into industrial invention. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z In fact, they give the connection in question a peculiarity that, according to consistent empiricism, it does not possess. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z In the desperate condition that France is in, what risk is run by resorting to empiricism? The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z People might call him an empiric—empiric he was proud to be, but it was and must remain empiricism in one definite direction only. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z The philosophy of Leibnitz is opposed at once to the theosophy of Paracelsus and Böhme and to the empiricism of Bacon and Locke, the pantheism of Spinoza, and the scepticism and manichæism of Bayle. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Along with strong expressions of empiricism we find him holding doctrines absolutely irreconcilable with empiricism in any form. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z We have here merely new modifications of thoughts that have been variously developed, not only from the side of empiricism, but also from that of rationalism. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The friend praying at her side was forgotten, the world had vanished, every law of reason was annihilated, all knowledge was out of her mind--every hard-won conquest of human empiricism was effaced. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Transcendental, Empirical.—These terms, with the corresponding nouns transcendentalism and empiricism, are of comparatively recent origin. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Physicists, awakening from the glamour of the Schelling nature philosophy, pronounced all speculation contraband, and declared pure empiricism, the simple investigation of actual things, the only permissible object of their labour. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z An act for the regulation of the practice of dentistry in the District of Columbia and for the protection of the people from empiricism in relation thereto. United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog 2011-06-22T02:00:25.153Z So the spirit of empiricism has here as at other points completely prevailed. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The official documents do not teach very much, and one may suspect that every public service which is not supervised in the most intelligent manner, and incited by competition, will slip into routine and empiricism. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z After all, though it is usually forgotten, the use of mercury, of iron, of quinin and of most of the tonics depends on nothing better than empiricism. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z When Alter says Ravitch "uses phony empiricism to rationalize almost every tired argument offered by teachers unions," we're meant to hiss at the invocation of the bad guy in this story. Michael Bloomberg's opinion page goes after a Michael Bloomberg critic 2011-06-03T19:45:00Z Whewell held that empiricism alone could not explain even itself; and he therefore taught that there was necessary truth as well as empirical truth. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z But empiricism in this field means psychological analysis. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The only question is, What will be the value of their selection? and, above all, How can so delicate a quest be saved from empiricism and rendered exact? Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z “The most innocent of the DVDs and books are just poorly researched, merely exchanging the rigid dogma of the ‘official story’ for another rigid dogma, no more founded in empiricism or objectivity. City Room: An Insistent Voice Is Gone, but Only From the Airwaves 2011-05-26T11:44:43Z "Phony empiricism" means "data that contradict data used by pro-reform sources." Michael Bloomberg's opinion page goes after a Michael Bloomberg critic 2011-06-03T19:45:00Z The Anglo-French school particularly represents empiricism and sensualism, that is to say, an almost exclusive importance attributed in all parts of human knowledge to experience in general, and especially to sensible experience. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z But pure empiricism will not succeed in answering this question. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z One would run the risk of falling into a blind empiricism if one were content to apply an educational method independently of the theory which is its soul. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z The term empiricism is, however, now applied to any philosophical system which finds all its material in experience. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Wigan fans' newest chant is not exactly the epitome of empiricism. Wigan's fishy striker Connor Sammon needs to start finding the net 2011-04-08T12:05:17Z What, then, according to him and in the system of empiricism, is the notion of substance? Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Thus we pass over from the ground of empiricism to that of rationalism, and the question is, what the theory of knowledge or rationalism signifies for the science of religion. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z His storm warnings, in their origin, indeed, liable to a charge of empiricism, were gradually developed on a more scientific basis, and gave a high percentage of correct results. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z The philosophy of empiricism has been particularly developed by English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, such as Locke, Hume, and J. S. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z To Bacon was given the honor of having distinguished between the fantasies of old wives' tales and the certainty of empiricism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Not only is empiricism unable to explain universal and necessary principles; but we maintain that, without these principles, empiricism cannot even account for the knowledge of the sensible world. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Even by Kant himself, on this very point, the synthesis of empiricism and rationalism is far from being elaborated with the necessary rigor and consistency. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z In these examples we see bad generalization � posteriori, or empiricism properly so called: causation inferred from casual conjunction, without either due elimination, or any presumption arising from known properties of the supposed agent. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II 2011-03-01T03:00:40.557Z Some of the above methods are founded on nothing more than ignorant empiricism, while others are based upon pathological and physiological considerations which are only partially correct in their applications. Contagious Abortion of Cows 2011-02-14T03:00:33.157Z The full implication of Baconian empiricism came to fruition in Newton, who in 1672 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z To empiricism we have opposed the insufficiency of sensation, and its own inevitable necessity to idealism. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z The contending parties are recruited essentially from the positions of traditional empiricism and rationalism and from their modern offshoots. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Dogma and empiricism, in nearly all subjects, has rendered immense service to mankind. The Scientific Basis of National Progress Including that of Morality 2010-12-30T03:00:25.567Z The irony of logic actually made English empiricism, understood in this psychological way, the starting-point for transcendentalism and for German philosophy. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z “Data is simply placing a set of burdens on the methods and the social habits we use to deal with and communicate our empiricism and our theory.” Books on Science: A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing 2009-12-16T18:28:00Z The foundation of our doctrine is, therefore, idealism rightly tempered by empiricism. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z All this is not only a matter of course for empiricism, which founds the whole constitution of our knowledge upon habits, but must also be granted by every rationalistic interpretation of the structure of knowledge. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z This view no doubt reflected a casual empiricism based on the family-run shops and small post offices that English dons saw when going outside their Oxbridge colleges. There is no proof that economic health depends on manufacturing 2010-08-30T12:01:00Z This sentiment, which always lay at the back of his mind, reached something like formal expression in his latest writings, where he sketched what he called radical empiricism. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Scheiber is right to applaud Obama for carefully considering empirical data, but we should not fetishize empiricism as if it answers the only questions truly worth asking. Barack Obama: Ideological president 2010-08-26T12:30:00Z From empiricism we have retained the maxim which gives empiricism its whole force—that the conditions of science, of art, of ethics, are in experience, and often in sensible experience. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z We, too, have seemingly followed in our discussion the course of empiricism. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z There is little science or intelligent study in the composition of this class, the world over; and much of their practice is the merest empiricism. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. Radical empiricism, which is radical agnosticism, delivers us from so benighted a choice. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z The peculiar appetites of the literary community, the result of intellectual dyspepsia, require and justify empiricism in nomenclature. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico 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. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" We have so far only made clear what every critical analysis of the causal relation has to concede to empiricism. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Historic empiricism has been empirical in a technical and controversial sense. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude To dominate the world co-operation is better than policy, and empiricism safer than inspiration. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Thus Bostr�m protests not only against empiricism but also against those doctrines of Christian theology which seemed to him to picture God as something less than Pure Spirit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The rich go to Campeachy or Merida, and put themselves under the hands of a physician; the poor linger and die, the victims of ignorance and empiricism. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. Besides, let us grant that this relation is as thoroughly valid for the content of our experience as empiricism has always, and rationalism nearly always, maintained. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The stubborn particularism of orthodox empiricism is its outstanding trait; consequently the opposed rationalism found no justification of bearings, continuities, and ties save to refer them in gross to the work of a hyper-empirical Reason. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude What prevented British empiricism from coming to this obvious conclusion was a peculiarity of the national temperament. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Moral law," replied the angel, "which is supposed to be revealed to us, is drawn in reality from the grossest empiricism. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels In this sense ‘radical empiricism’ and pragmatism are closely allied. Essays in Radical Empiricism But the juristic empiricism by which the ius ciuile was made into a law of the world needed something more than a theoretical incentive. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law Of course, not all empiricism prior to Hume and Kant was sensationalistic, pulverizing "experience" into isolated sensory qualities or simple ideas. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Accordingly his empiricism took an introspective form; like Hamlet he stopped at the how; he began to think about thinking. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z This protest against the high, deductive faith of Christian monotheism was due to Mill's frank empiricism. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance It distinguishes ‘radical empiricism’ from the “ordinary empiricism” of Hume, J. S. Mill, etc., with which it is otherwise allied. Essays in Radical Empiricism It was a process very like that by which Anglo-American judicial empiricism has been able to make a law of the world on the basis of the legal precepts of seventeenth-century England. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law This conclusion would deal a deathblow to both empiricism and rationalism. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Had he seen the developments of his radical empiricism, I cannot help thinking he would have marvelled that such logical mechanisms should have been hatched out of that egg. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z These are nominalism and sensualism, empiricism and a-posteriorism, which, setting themselves against epistemological rationalism, assail the dignity, the independence, and the autonomy of the thinking mind. Naturalism And Religion When thus generalized, ‘radical empiricism’ is not only a theory of knowledge comprising pragmatism as a special chapter, but a metaphysic as well. Essays in Radical Empiricism They can be rescued from empiricism, if at all, only by being submitted to some of the methods already characterised as applicable to science in general. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic The fact that thought is an intrinsic feature of experience is fatal to the traditional empiricism which makes it an artificial by-product. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z One fears lest sooner or later a reaction against the contortions of this empiricism and psychism should lead to a modern rehabilitation of mysticism or occultism. Naturalism And Religion But it differs from the Humian type of empiricism in one particular which makes me add the epithet radical. Essays in Radical Empiricism The doctrine of empiricism has been ascribed to Aristotle, but he fully recognized the universal, and thought it connected with the individual, and not separated from it, as represented by Plato. History of Human Society Rationalism thus accepted the account of experience given by traditional empiricism, and introduced reason as extra-empirical. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude This empiricism does not look to the building up of science, but rather to a more thorough criticism and disintegration of conventional beliefs, those of empirical science included. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z But the time when social and economic science had to choose between debatable and inexpressive technicalities on the one hand or the stigma of empiricism on the other, is altogether past. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism Radical empiricism, on the contrary, is fair to both the unity and the disconnection. Essays in Radical Empiricism Here he became specific, borrowing from Lockean empiricism his conditions of intellectual assent. A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) It is notorious that historic empiricism was strong in criticism and in demolition of outworn beliefs, but weak for purposes of constructive social direction. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The principle of psychological empiricism is to look for the elements employed in thinking, and to conclude that thought is nothing but those elements arranged in a certain order. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z This is the difference between an experimental philosophy and a crude empiricism. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) All the theses of radical empiricism, in short, follow. Essays in Radical Empiricism Their thinkers were highly trained logicians; they revelled in abstract argument; theirs was a cold intellectual metaphysic, unwarmed by flesh and blood empiricism. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology According to the most logically consistent editions of orthodox empiricism, all that can be experienced is the fleeting, the momentary, mental state. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude In any case, we are led to this curious result: that radical empiricism ought to deny that any idea of the past can be true at all. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z And then there was also the new methodological approach, that critical empiricism whose most vocal exponent was Francis Bacon, which led directly to the founding of the Royal Society in 1660 and its subsequent incorporation. Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 It is a reasonable sounding state of mind, but it is exactly the state of mind which radical empiricism, by its doctrine of the reality of conjunctive relations, seeks to dispel. Essays in Radical Empiricism Did my utmost to explain to them that warfare to-day is not empiricism, but science, and that empiricism is only better when sham-science has the upper hand. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 More positively instructive are the objective idealisms which have been the offspring of the marriage between the "reason" of historic rationalism and the alleged immediate psychical stuff of historic empiricism. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Neither Mill's empiricism nor Ward's belief in intuitions 'in the sense required' would, I fancy, be now regarded as satisfactory. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice This empiricism existed in competition with a declining, richly vitalistic Aristotelian rationalism which had virtually eliminated empiricism during the scholastic period. Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 Against this rationalistic tendency to treat experience as chopped up into discontinuous static objects, radical empiricism protests. Essays in Radical Empiricism Are we simply to admit that there is no certainty about economical problems, and to fall back upon mere empiricism? Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies British empiricism, with its appeal to what has been in the past, is, after all, only a kind of a priorism. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The knowledge of human nature thus evoked is in no sense science, it is a mere rule-of-thumb affair, a thin mechanical empiricism. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production In these examples we see bad generalization a posteriori, or empiricism properly so called; causation inferred from casual conjunction, without either due elimination, or any presumption arising from known properties of the supposed agent. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive In the third place, Professor James regarded ‘radical empiricism’ as an independent doctrine. Essays in Radical Empiricism Figure 10.—An exhibit on superstitions, empiricism, magic, and faith healing in the light of scientific medicine, completed in 1962, is in sharp contrast with that shown in figure 9. History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964 The efforts of classic empiricism at the reform of logic have long been an easy mark for idealistic reformers. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Animal magnetism or mesmerism had been involved in mystery and empiricism. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 He wished to deal with political, and especially with legal, questions in a scientific spirit—but 'scientific' would mean not pure mathematics but pure empiricism. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. This he asserted expressly: “Let me say that there is no logical connexion between pragmatism, as I understand it, and a doctrine which I have recently set forth as ‘radical empiricism.’ Essays in Radical Empiricism They are amusing and even instructive occasionally, but there is a serious side to them—their crass empiricism. Pan-Islam In this wise the controversy has gone on ever since the challenge of the old rationalistic logic by the nominalists launched the issue of empiricism and rationalism. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Comte's teachings are a combination of empiricism and socialism. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) In this sense, 'individualism' is congenial to 'empiricism,' because it starts from facts and particular interests, and resents the intrusion of first principles. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Essay xii throws an important light on the author’s general ‘empiricism,’ and forms an important link between ‘radical empiricism’ and the author’s other doctrines. Essays in Radical Empiricism The use of spirits as a stimulant in diseases, except in a very limited circle, is a mere empiricism for which no good reasons can be given. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Thus even Greek medicine was unable to develop a different type of scientific method except in so far as it kept alive an empiricism which played a not unimportant part in post-Aristotelian philosophy. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Has he rebuked the presumptions of humanity? has he called upon proud reason to humble itself? has he gibed human philosophy, and even gloried for a moment in the contradictions of empiricism? Pascal And there is no doubt that, as a movement of reaction against the traditional British empiricism, the hegelian influence represents expansion and freedom, and is doing service of a certain kind. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy It sets forth systematically and within brief compass the doctrine of ‘radical empiricism.’ Essays in Radical Empiricism It was a pity that brilliantly unsuccessful man had not lived to see the result of his sedulous empiricism. Stingaree One of the curiosities of orthodox empiricism is that its outstanding speculative problem is the existence of an "external world." Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude This philosophical category would form one of the most interesting, and in these days, when political empiricism shows a growing tendency to supplant statesmanlike research, not the least important portion of our historical list. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 This doctrine is of course an integral part of empiricism, an integral part of common-sense. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy An ‘empiricism’ of this description is a “philosophic attitude” or temper of mind rather than a doctrine, and characterizes all of Professor James’s writings. Essays in Radical Empiricism Law claimed that he was applying "the methods of philosophy, the principles of Descartes, to social economy, abandoned hitherto to chance and empiricism." Essay on the Creative Imagination It occupies the position of an emancipated empiricism or a thoroughgoing naïve realism. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude There is a legion of secondary symptoms of proctitis, all of which medical empiricism considers and denominates causes. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis Hume's account of causation is a good illustration of the way in which empiricism may use the principle of totality. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy In a narrower sense, ‘empiricism’ is the method of resorting to particular experiences for the solution of philosophical problems. Essays in Radical Empiricism They penetrate the whole of our so-called empiricism. Creative Evolution If we seek to escape by an appeal to habit, as in empiricism, or to an objective universal, as in idealism and neo-realism, we are merely disguising, not removing the miracle. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Coleridge had convinced himself that all the errors of the time, and their political dangers, arose from a false and godless empiricism. Studies in Literature and History Brown thus illustrates the gravitation of the 'common-sense' philosophy to pure empiricism. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill I give the name of ‘radical empiricism’ to my Weltanschauung. Essays in Radical Empiricism But the empiricism with which Schopenhauer began, the appeal to a familiar experience of self as will, has meanwhile been forgotten. The Approach to Philosophy First it is clear that logical operations are of the same reproductive repetitive type that we have found in the associational logic of empiricism, and in the logic of the objective universal. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude This halting conclusion indicates a departure from the pure empiricism of his school, and even the inadequacy of the argument shows the effort that Mill was making towards some fellow-feeling with spiritual conceptions. Studies in Literature and History So Hume's empiricism leads inevitably to scepticism even in this realm. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. Essays in Radical Empiricism Indeed, it exhibits an almost irrepressible tendency to overstep the bounds both of empiricism and subjectivism, an historical connection with which alone justifies its introduction in the present chapter. The Approach to Philosophy Description of what has been—empiricism—is futile in itself to project and criticize. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude We so far agree with Mr. Stephen that we believe Englishmen, in general, to practise a great deal more of empiricism than they avow. Studies in Literature and History Now the sum of treatments necessary to protect the natural forces of defense and reorganization in positive medicine, are much more minute and are diffused in much vaster fields than the old empiricism. Spontaneous Activity in Education Radical empiricism has, in fact, more affinities with natural realism than with the views of Berkeley or of Mill, and this can be easily shown. Essays in Radical Empiricism This account of the source and criterion of knowledge is called empiricism, in distinction from the counter-theory of rationalism. The Approach to Philosophy But an empirical empiricism, in contrast with orthodox deductive empiricism, has no difficulty in establishing its jurisdiction as to deductive functions. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Physiology is one of those fountains at which it is somewhat dangerous to 'taste,' unless we 'drink deep;' on account of the tendency of superficial knowledge to empiricism. The Young Man's Guide Consequently there is for each a special method of attack, and it is a reversion to pure empiricism to expect any one treatment to act equally on the pectocelluloses, lignocelluloses, and cutocelluloses. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 In radical empiricism there is no bedding; it is as if the pieces clung together by their edges, the transitions experienced between them forming their cement. Essays in Radical Empiricism Its loss of preëminence is in part due to the growth of empiricism, stimulated by the writings of Lord Bacon in the seventeenth century, and fostered by the subsequent development of experimental science. The Approach to Philosophy However, this was a rationalism which was not at odds with empiricism, but which was more in line with what has been called the American philosophy, pragmatism. The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography Indeed, a very little attention paid to breathing, attack, registers, and nasal resonance, is enough to relieve any teacher of the reproach of empiricism. The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern The physical method of treating disease presents a tremendous and significant departure from the empiricism of medicine and the experimentation of dietetics, the restricted fields of electricity, suggestion, water cures, and massage. Civics and Health It seems to me, as I said at the outset of this essay, that many minds are, in point of fact, now turning in a direction that points towards radical empiricism. Essays in Radical Empiricism For a radical empiricism, knowledge would consist of descriptive generalizations based upon the summation of instances. The Approach to Philosophy Such empiricism as regards the negro race, after our repeated failures, is cruel and unjust. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy To the vocal scientist, "wearing the voice into place" represents the depth of empiricism. The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern Throughout civilized Europe a sort of carnival of empiricism prevailed. Art in England Notes and Studies ‘Change taking place’ is a unique content of experience, one of those ‘conjunctive’ objects which radical empiricism seeks so earnestly to rehabilitate and preserve. Essays in Radical Empiricism The counter-tendencies of naturalism and absolutism are always connected, and often coincide with, the epistemological opposition between empiricism, which proclaims perception, and rationalism, which proclaims reason, to be the proper organ of knowledge. The Approach to Philosophy The history of the advance of the cure of disease is in the history of empiricism, in the best sense of that much-abused word. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals There can now be no doubt that the old masters were fully justified in their empiricism. The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern In the same way the Church cut off the extremities and one-sidedness in empiricism and supernaturalism, in rationalism and mysticism, in optimism and pessimism. The Agony of the Church (1917) Radical empiricism alone insists on understanding forwards also, and refuses to substitute static concepts of the understanding for transitions in our moving life. Essays in Radical Empiricism Furthermore, since empiricism is congenial to naturalism, it is an easy step to say that nature is directly known in perception. The Approach to Philosophy The sensitive interests of business shrank from his visionary theories and his dangerous empiricism. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 This change in the character of vocal instruction will not be in any sense a return to empiricism. The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern A poem, like the Scriptures, is its own best interpreter; and there is always scope for the personal equation in judging literature, because criticism is empiricism in any case, being opinion set against opinion. A Hero and Some Other Folks But in my own radical empiricism this is only a methodological postulate, not a conclusion supposed to flow from the intrinsic absurdity of transempirical objects. Essays in Radical Empiricism Contempt for empiricism, scepticism, the extravagancies of religious metaphysics which finally become mythology, have their origin here. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Paracelsus contributed to the first in the direction of modern empiricism, by defending understanding as that which comprehended exactly the thing that the hand touched and the eyes saw. The Age of the Reformation The distinction between good and evil in human societies has never emerged from the grossest empiricism. A Mummer's Tale Erastus had shown up the empiricism of Webster's idol Paracelsus, and was in great disfavour with the writers of the Anti-Galenic school. Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Radical empiricism and pragmatism have so many misunderstandings to suffer from, that it seems my duty not to let this one go any farther, uncorrected. Essays in Radical Empiricism The name or word "mordant" indicates the empiricism, or our old friend "the rule of thumb," of the age in which it was first created and used. The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association The empiricism of the school is shown in its scientific lore, in the fact that so many of the Sceptics were physicians, and in the character of the ten Tropes of ἐποχή. Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism Yes, this was the first practical proof that had come to me of the sheer empiricism of the present state of medicine. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy The implications of such a new kind of objectivity avoid the danger of subjectivism, on the one hand, and of empiricism on the other hand. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy In this early book we see him coming forth like a young David against every clumsy champion of utilitarianism, hedonism, positivism, or empiricism. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays To him Nature and the development of humanity were not limited kingdoms apart from God—paltry realities subjected to the laws of a hopeless empiricism. The Life of Jesus We see how firmly set Froebel was against experience-teaching, a posteriori work, or, as he calls it, empiricism. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. It has often been claimed by those who do not sympathize with empiricism that the empiricists make assumptions much as others do, but have not the grace to admit it. An Introduction to Philosophy Both empiricism and the theory of innate ideas had agreed in regarding all knowledge as something given, from without or from within. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant No,—we waited till the morbid strength of our boulimia for their physic had exhausted the well-stored dispensary of their empiricism. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) This astounding variation of opinion in the doctors of the State savours of empiricism, not to say quackery. A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 Thus the empiricism of Newman leads logically to consequences which he would have been among the first to reject. Outspoken Essays Moreover, reflection forces us to the conclusion that when we have defined empiricism as a doctrine which rests throughout upon an appeal to "experience" we have not said anything very definite. An Introduction to Philosophy "Is experience to be dismissed as empiricism, with a sneer, because the wider rule is lacking?" Doctor Claudius, A True Story We may note, in particular, that this empiricism, which has been expounded most carefully by Pearson and Mach, coincides with Hegelian Absolutism in leading to the denial of the truth of mathematics. Recent Developments in European Thought English empiricism was rapidly swept out of existence. The Unity of Civilization Let any man read the Stonyhurst manuals, and say whether the radical empiricism of the Modernists could find a lodgment anywhere in such a system without disturbing the stability of the whole. Outspoken Essays But then, as Hume seemed to have shown, empiricism must run out into skepticism. An Introduction to Philosophy There is an empiricism of religion which is worth attention. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality If we admit that mathematics is true—and it seems quite impossible to avoid the admission—we can now see that neither the traditional Kant-Hegel doctrine nor the traditional sensationalistic empiricism can be sound. Recent Developments in European Thought The only safeguard he could find was in empiricism. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham And if the belief in the immortality of the soul has been unable to find vindication in rational empiricism, neither is it satisfied with pantheism. Tragic Sense Of Life It is the special object of the present work to combat those errors which derive their source from a vicious empiricism and from imperfect inductions. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Indeed, it is hardly too much to affirm that empiricism and opportunism were among the principal characteristics of his policy in Paris, and that the outcome was what it must be. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference How far Science has moved away from crude sensationalistic empiricism may be estimated by a comparison of the successive editions of the Grammar of Science. Recent Developments in European Thought Man is no longer quite so helpless a creature as empiricism would make him. Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life My views of Mr. Kirkham's system are thus publicly given, with the greater pleasure, on account of the literary empiricisms which have been so extensively practised in many parts of the western country. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures This empiricism, the melancholy heritage transmitted to us from former times, invariably contends for the truth of its axioms with the arrogance of a narrow-minded spirit. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 The sciences do not grow by a process of empiricism, which rambles tentatively and blindly from fact to fact, unguided of 041 any hypothesis. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Antonyms: maladroitness, empiricism, quackery, inexpertness, clumsiness. skillful, a. skilled, expert, adroit, dexterous, adept, masterly, proficient, deft, able, efficient, competent, accomplished. Putnam's Word Book In France, after reaching its climax in Voltaire, it ended in materialism, atheism, and fatalism; and in England, where it had developed the empiricism of Locke, it came to grief in the scepticism of Hume. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English As the result of all this study, research and empiricism, a great mass of alleged facts about physical characteristics has been accumulated. Analyzing Character It is true there is no study more difficult nor more obscure; it verges on empiricism, just as astronomy verges on astrology; and yet without this study there is no navigation. The Man Who Laughs They will assuredly not be disappointed if they open their minds to what the thicker and more radical empiricism has to say. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Mere empiricism bears the same relation to thinking as eating to digestion and assimilation. Essays of Schopenhauer For the sake of those who happily remain ignorant of this successful empiricism, it is desirable that the record and exposition of it be made brief. The Grammar of English Grammars They possess the art of taming the monstrous serpents of the country, and rendering them perfectly harmless: in short, their profession is nothing but a system of the grossest empiricism. Travels through the Empire of Morocco This group favored eclecticism of a more scientific kind, by starting from considerations of method and seeking to overcome the antithesis between rationalism and empiricism. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time I confess that it is indeed a return to empiricism, but I think that the return in such accomplished shape only proves the latter's immortal truth. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy In the textile industry, he has substituted uniform, rational, well-thought out and simple methods of treatment of all the various textile fabrics and fibers where mystery, empiricism, "rule-of-thumb" and their accompanying uncertainties reigned. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 It has already been intimated that sensational empiricism represents neither the idea of experience justified by modern psychology nor the idea of knowledge suggested by modern scientific procedure. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Till then, do not, I pray you, harden your minds irrevocably against the empiricism which I profess. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature The suit between empiricism and rationalism had continued for centuries, but still awaited final decision. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Of course, if true, this cuts off radical empiricism without even a shilling. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy It doesn't take much besides capital to succeed, however, "where the conditions for the propagation of empiricism are more favorable than ever before." Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 The antithesis of empiricism and rationalism loses the support of the human situation which once gave it meaning and relative justification. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Hence we see on all sides, side by side with dogma in the classical sciences of law, economy, and politics, empiricism in the laws themselves. Criminal Sociology But there is a great difference, materially as well as formally, between these kindred undertakings, a difference corresponding to that between Locke's empiricism and Kant's idealism. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Radical empiricism takes conjunctive relations at their face-value, holding them to be as real as the terms united by them. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy I am told that the printers of Paris are endeavoring by association to rise again from their degradation: may their efforts not be exhausted in vain empiricism or misled into barren utopias! System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery Some of them are named scholasticism, sensationalism, rationalism, idealism, realism, empiricism, transcendentalism, pragmatism, etc. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Starting from the subtle empiricism of Aristotle, it flows in the profound penetration of Vico to the nineteenth century, where it appears again in the masterly analyses of Schleiermacher, Humboldt, and De Sanctis. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Rationalism judges correctly concerning the origin of the most important classes of ideas; empiricism concerning the sphere of their validity. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The notion that the absolute is made of constituents on which its being depends is the rankest empiricism. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy The most unspeculative men of practice have learned to prefer him and his arts to the best empiricism. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Within the sphere of school instruction, empiricism found its directly beneficial office in protesting against mere book learning. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education The philosopher feels that he has a great mission, which is nothing less than the leading back of thought to belief in the spirit, deserted by so many for crude empiricism and positivism. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic The principle of happiness represents moral empiricism, the principle of perfection moral rationalism. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Let God but have the least infinitesimal other of any kind beside him, and empiricism and rationalism might strike hands in a lasting treaty of peace. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy There I can meet you with as much false knowledge and empiricism as you can bring for the life of you. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life A third alternative to the banal dilemma of 'empiricism' or 'apriorism' suggests itself. Pragmatism In his medical practice he was by some accused of empiricism. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives What a tremendous step from the empiricism of Bacon to the skepticism of Hume, from the innate ideas of Descartes to the potential a priori of Leibnitz! History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time I fully believe that such an empiricism is a more natural ally than dialectics ever were, or can be, of the religious life. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Alas! alas! that so exemplary a member of the community should have perished through piscine empiricism! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 And, after all, was not Kant a bit premature in proclaiming the finality of his analysis and of his refutation of empiricism for all time? Pragmatism In this freedom from empiricism and sturdy adherence to the realities of life, it can be profitably commended to all nations which may attempt a similar task. The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution On the other hand, the positive philosophy, notwithstanding its rejection of metaphysics, is far from giving its sanction to empiricism. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Pluralistic empiricism knows that everything is in an environment, a surrounding world of other things, and that if you leave it to work there it will inevitably meet with friction and opposition from its neighbors. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy I should have expected better things from you: but the sway of empiricism is destined yet to have a long struggle before it receives its final overthrow. A Voyage to the Moon Moreover, the idealism and the empiricism of the Politics are never really reconciled by Aristotle himself. Politics: A Treatise on Government What, though, is found the outcome of this philosophy, appears a question to be answered with wariness of empiricism. The Queen Pedauque In Descartes the empiricism and sensationalism of the English is confronted by rationalism, to which the great thinkers of the Continent continue loyal. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time I shall myself have use for the diminutive epithets of empiricism. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy By these means they have given plausibility enough to their theories, to leave many a one in doubt, whether it is really a new triumph of human discovery, or merely a later form of empiricism. A Voyage to the Moon Science, among the latest branches of knowledge to be freed from the swaddling-clothes of empiricism, received, in its applied form, some attention, though mathematics and physics were not specially favored as subjects of investigation. The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic The philosophy was little more than school-logic, derived at second or third hand from Aristotle, the science a grotesque amalgam of empiricism and tradition. Medieval Europe Telesius maintained that the Aristotelian doctrine must be replaced by an unprejudiced empiricism; that nature must be explained from itself, and by as few principles as possible. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Reduced to their most pregnant difference, empiricism means the habit of explaining wholes by parts, and rationalism means the habit of explaining parts by wholes. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy He described his position as a kind of mean between the science of the botanist and the empiricism of the working gardener. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 The former hearty and self- assured empiricism of science is giving way before the outcome of its own logic and a new and more promising spirit of reflection on its own "categories" is abroad. Bergson and His Philosophy But even Hume did not make his empiricism so universal as to include mathematics. The Critique of Practical Reason From the standpoint of the Cartesian problem, which he solves in a sense opposite to Descartes, Locke supplements the empiricism of Bacon by basing it on a psychologically developed theory of knowledge. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Rationalism thus preserves affinities with monism, since wholeness goes with union, while empiricism inclines to pluralistic views. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Schiller's doctrine of 'humanism,' Dewey's 'Studies in logical theory,' and my own 'radical empiricism,' all involve this general notion of truth as 'working,' either actual or conceivable. Meaning of Truth To avoid one misunderstanding at least, let me say that there is no logical connexion between pragmatism, as I understand it, and a doctrine which I have recently set forth as 'radical empiricism.' Pragmatism Therefore it will be necessary to add something here as a protection against this delusion and to exhibit empiricism in its naked superficiality. The Critique of Practical Reason Its principle was that of pure empiricism, not only in the explication of the phenomena in the world, but also in the solution of the transcendental ideas, even of that of the universe itself. The Critique of Pure Reason Now both empiricism and absolutism bring the philosopher inside and make man intimate, but the one being pluralistic and the other monistic, they do so in differing ways that need much explanation. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Radical empiricism consists first of a postulate, next of a statement of fact, and finally of a generalized conclusion. Meaning of Truth Historically we find the terms 'intellectualism' and 'sensationalism' used as synonyms of 'rationalism' and 'empiricism.' Pragmatism But if we adopt a universal empiricism, then mathematics will be included. The Critique of Practical Reason The attainment of absolute totality is completely impossible on the path of empiricism. The Critique of Pure Reason But now there are signs of its giving way to a wave of revised empiricism. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy It will transform the medical empiricism and confusion of the past and present into an exact science by demonstrating the unity of disease and treatment. Nature Cure Rationalism usually considers itself more religious than empiricism, but there is much to say about this claim, so I merely mention it. Pragmatism And thus universal empiricism reveals itself as absolute scepticism. The Critique of Practical Reason On the contrary, pure empiricism seems to empty them of all their power and influence. The Critique of Pure Reason In pluralistic empiricism our relation to God remains least foreign, 318. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy But far be from me the despair which prejudges the law by a paltry empiricism;—since there never was a right endeavor but it succeeded. Essays — Second Series You escape indeed the materialism that goes with the reigning empiricism; but you pay for your escape by losing contact with the concrete parts of life. Pragmatism Leibniz's conception of many possible worlds seems to accord much better with modern logic and with the practical empiricism which is now universal. The Analysis of Mind But empiricism, in compensation, holds out to reason, in its speculative interests, certain important advantages, far exceeding any that the dogmatist can promise us. The Critique of Pure Reason What do the terms empiricism and rationalism mean? A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Observation is perhaps more powerful an organon than either experiment or empiricism. The Story of My Heart An Autobiography You find empiricism with inhumanism and irreligion; or else you find a rationalistic philosophy that indeed may call itself religious, but that keeps out of all definite touch with concrete facts and joys and sorrows. Pragmatism In a word, scientific empiricism was beginning to gain a hearing in medicine as against the metaphysical preconceptions of the earlier generations. A History of Science — Volume 4 In regard to the third motive for the preliminary choice of a party in this war of assertions, it seems very extraordinary that empiricism should be utterly unpopular. The Critique of Pure Reason I believe that radical empiricism, on the contrary, holding to the each-form, and making of God only one of the caches, affords the higher degree of intimacy. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy All that philosophy had taught, all that practice, experiment, and empiricism had discovered, was familiar to him. The Story of My Heart An Autobiography It can remain religious like the rationalisms, but at the same time, like the empiricisms, it can preserve the richest intimacy with facts. Pragmatism He practised almost pure empiricism, however, and certainly it must have been almost impossible to determine which ones, if any, of the numerous ingredients of the prescription had real efficacy. A History of Science — Volume 1 But when the booty was in the robber's own safe keeping, the empiricism of his method was revealed. A Book of Scoundrels It is itself a part of the hegelian vision or intuition, and a part that finds the strongest echo in empiricism and common sense. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy By the slow process of vast empiricism nature has evolved the wonderful defensive motor me-chanism of many animals and of man. Origin and Nature of Emotions Now pragmatism, devoted tho she be to facts, has no such materialistic bias as ordinary empiricism labors under. Pragmatism It was a conclusion of pure empiricism, and I, too, as you shall see, demonstrated it empirically. The Jacket (Star-Rover) Superficially this sounds like Kant's view; but between categories fulminated before nature began, and categories gradually forming themselves in nature's presence, the whole chasm between rationalism and empiricism yawns. Pragmatism As compared with all these rationalizing pictures, the pluralistic empiricism which I profess offers but a sorry appearance. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy |
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