empiricism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses. (Often contrasted with rationalism.) countable,uncountable
    — Empiricism teaches us that we are unceasingly and intimately in contact with a full, living, breathing Reality, that experience is a constant communion with the real.
  2. A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation. countable,uncountable
    — Our whole life in some of its highest and most important aspects is simply empiricism. Empiricism is only another word for experience.
  3. Research methodology shaped from empirical philosophy (see above), e.g. surveys, statistics, etc. countable,uncountable
  4. Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere (personal or anecdotal) experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles. countable,historical,uncountable
    — Near-synonyms: folk medicine; quackery; charlatanry

词形变化

empiricisms plural

词汇关系

衍生词
abstracted empiricism antiempiricism metempiricism neoempiricism postempiricism radical empiricism
相关词
empirical empiricist rationalism

词源

Etymology tree
English empiric
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English empiricism
From empiric + -ism.
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