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Empiricist   /ɪmpˈɪrəsəst/   Listen
Empiricist

noun
1.
A philosopher who subscribes to empiricism.



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"Empiricist" Quotes from Famous Books



... epicurean in his physics, an empiricist, though an inconsistent one, in philosophy, chose the Latin language as the vehicle for his ideas. A group of writers whose tendencies were towards sensualism or scepticism, viewed him as their master. Chapelle in verse, La Mothe le Vayer in prose, may serve as representatives ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden
... visits to the Restaurant Bretagne began, other visits ceased—without, indeed, any definite decision, for Soames, like all Forsytes, and the great majority of their countrymen, was a born empiricist. But it was this change in his mode of life which had gradually made him so definitely conscious that he desired to alter his condition from that of the unmarried married man to that ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy


Words linked to "Empiricist" :   philosopher, empiricism


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