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Definition of Empiricist
1. Noun. A philosopher who subscribes to empiricism.
Definition of Empiricist
1. n. An empiric.
Definition of Empiricist
1. Noun. an advocate or supporter of empiricism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Empiricist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empiricist
Literary usage of Empiricist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Logic by James Welton (1896)
"empiricist View. It is the fundamental doctrine of the empiricist school of ...
But a mere empty possibility is nothing, and, therefore, the empiricist ..."
2. Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy by William James (1911)
"... if you are an empiricist you beg a thousand successive grams; but you beg the
same amount in each case, and you are the same beggar whatever you may ..."
3. Dissertations on Leading Philosophical Topics by Alexander Bain (1903)
"Quarrel of empiricist, not with innate ideas, but with innate certainties. ...
Reply of the empiricist to Kantian ' forms'. Empiricism to account for Space, ..."
4. The Science of Logic: An Inquiry Into the Principles of Accurate Thought and by Peter Coffey (1912)
"ULTIMATE RATIONAL GROUNDS OF OUR BELIEF IN UNIFORMITY: THE SCHOLASTIC, empiricist,
AND IDEALIST VIEWS.—Firstly, as to the rational grounds of our assent to ..."
5. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"When in this way he had arrived at theories which contradicted the assertions of
our senses, he did not say, as a true empiricist must have said, ..."
6. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society by Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"I.—On Rationalist and empiricist Ethics. [THE following notes, prepared by the
late Miss Naden for a paper which she was prevented from completing by her ..."
7. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1888)
"That Bacon, like these philosophers, was an empiricist or realist is obvious;
but that his philosophy was systematic enough to originate a school of ..."
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