| This is the problem of the empiricists, the positivists, the existentialists, the Cartesians, and so forth. |
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| Heidegger doesn't even differ from the empiricists and positivists in thinking that it was the wrong idea. |
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| However, at the very least, one can garner background information of what might have influenced the empiricists through the doctrine of skepsis. |
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| They were men of science, Baconian empiricists, Protestants, and improvers. |
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| Russell took this to refute the older empiricists, for whom all knowledge rests solely on sense experience. |
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| Some neo-positivists cannot forgive him for his anti-positivism, and some empiricists cannot be patient with his apriorism. |
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| Perhaps social situation is partially responsible for the rise of the medical empiricists. |
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| Logical empiricists can readily incorporate this point in an account of the relative merits of different types of inductive inference. |
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| For the Stoics were thorough-going empiricists and believed that sense-impressions lie at the foundation of all of our knowledge. |
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| Feminist empiricists prefer the tools of analytic philosophy of science. |
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| As we saw earlier, the logical empiricists held that the answer to this question is affirmative, and the logician largely agreed with them about this. |
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| Of course this perspective is not available to the empiricists, and they do not have such a straightforward explanation of the seeming necessity of mathematics. |
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| Although empiricists also used deductive reasoning, they put a greater emphasis on the inductive method championed by fellow British countryman Francis Bacon. |
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| The contributors to Kid Stuff, a collection of 11 essays, do want action, but first and foremost they are empiricists. |
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| Debates between behaviorists and mentalists, between reductionists and nonreductionists, between empiricists and rationalists, and between elementalists and holists rage on. |
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| Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. |
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| Empiricists may look to the historical connection between Spain and the Netherlands, but in this case, my money's on innateness. |
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| Empiricists like Locke and rationalists like Newton lacked the rich ontology of Thomas Aquinas and the medieval schoolmen. |
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