The Cyrenaics are notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism. |
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Unlike the empiricist, the instrumentalist does not maintain that the only valid concepts are those reducible to sense data. |
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This drew attention away from the whole and focused it on the part, as all empiricist research tends to do. |
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For, unlike determinate abstraction, empiricist and rationalist abstraction is characterised by both inductivism and deductivism. |
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His phylogenetic explanation of the origin of language stands in service of his empiricist effort to ground human knowledge. |
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Critics rightly describe him as a great empiricist, but he was certainly no prisoner of fact. |
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But even the great empiricist John Locke subscribed to a rational foundation for the basic principles of morals. |
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Locke, as a moderate empiricist, accepted that there were both material and immaterial substances. |
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He was an empiricist who made empiricism more radical by treating pure experience as the very substance of the world. |
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He believes that the motive of benevolence, so dear to empiricist morality, is a species of mere inclination, and therefore morally neutral. |
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When this is pointed out, many fall back to the softer empiricist idea that we know by induction that nature in fact is economical in its means. |
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It is a common empiricist assumption that I can know my experience simply by observing it. |
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In putting the question this way, James takes issue with Hume's empiricist critique of identity. |
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This openness has also been why psychoanalysis has often been dismissed as not sufficiently empiricist or objective in its methods. |
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Orwell's notion of language involves similar empiricist assumptions, in its naive belief that one first has a concept and then fits a word to it. |
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The empiricist position has been taken in recent times by the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle. |
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He dismisses the theories of those who do not share his strict materialist and empiricist approach to brain-function. |
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One does not have to be an atheist to be a rationalist, empiricist or skeptic. |
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Locke and his successors in the empiricist tradition argued that the foundation of contingent knowledge about the world lies in sensory experience. |
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Borrowing heavily from Western empiricist thought, these intellectuals attacked all forms of traditional Chinese teachings, ritual, and institutions. |
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What rationalist philosophers in general and Misesian economists in particular object to is merely the ''overreach'' of the empiricist method. |
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At least 44 are by a single author: Philodemus, an empiricist, who was a close friend of Calpurnius Piso, Julius Caesar's father-in-law. |
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One might call me a cynical empiricist but I prefer the notion of an analytical observer! |
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Intuition exists, and it functions precisely based on the empiricist knowledge we have reached in all fields of knowledge. |
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And we continue being rationalist and scarcely empiricist regarding these matters. |
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Should we do as Hume did and do away with rationalism placing empiricist knowledge as the only source of evolution? |
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The reason behind the empiricist outlook is not far to seek. |
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Thomas Hobbes and Baruch Spinoza, in the next generation, are often also described as an empiricist and a rationalist respectively. |
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Much influenced by American work, the research employed a positivist and empiricist framework of analysis which attempted to delimit the nature of homelessness in Madrid and explain its occurrence. |
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Locke wrote in a different, empiricist tradition. |
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This empiricist and subjectivist choice has often been misunderstood, leading certain situs and pro-situs to become rather obnoxious spiritual advisors. |
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Hume's empiricist approach to philosophy places him with John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes as a British Empiricist. |
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Hume became a major figure in the skeptical philosophical and empiricist traditions of philosophy. |
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Thomas Hobbes, Jeremy Bentham and the empiricist John Locke received degrees from Oxford. |
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Thus, ideas in Dewey's system retain their empiricist flavour in that they are only known a posteriori. |
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Sadly, he hasn't much hope of victory. In their place we suggest the current third-place candidate: a liberal sceptic and empiricist, a contemporary of Adam Smith and a man with a good shot at winning. |
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Knowledge is indeed indefinable in empiricist terms. |
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The petit-bourgeois leaderships with their bureaucratic forms and empiricist methods are ranged against participation by the workers as a class in the struggle. |
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The Irish bishop George Berkeley, an empiricist and idealist, fought skeptical doubts by identifying appearance and reality and offering a spiritualistic metaphysics. |
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It represents an extreme, empiricist view of scientific observation that states that the scientific method provides us with no true insight into the nature of the world. |
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Empiricist philosophers, such as Hume and Berkeley, favoured the bundle theory of personal identity. |
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