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empiricism
noun
(em-pir-i-cism)
medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
Synonyms:
quackery
,
empiricism
noun
(em-pir-i-cism)
(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
Synonyms:
empiricist philosophy,
sensationalism
,
empiricism
noun
(em-pir-i-cism)
the application of empirical methods in any art or science
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sensationalism
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empiricist philosophy
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nativism
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rationalism
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scientism
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epistemology
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positivist
,
subjectivism
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platonism
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monism
,
metaphysics
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rationality
,
reductionism
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kantian
,
materialist
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dialectical materialism
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nominalism
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naturalism
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historicism
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postmodernism
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theism
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aristotelian logic
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utilitarianism
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objectivism
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aristotelian
,
dogmatism
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humanism
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intellectualism
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pantheism
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philosophic
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formalism
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hermeneutic
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deism
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presuppositions
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teleology
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supernaturalism
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relativist
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philosophical doctrine
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scholasticism
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gnosticism
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legalism
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syllogisms
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atomism
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dogma
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determinist
,
logical positivism
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maritain
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utopianism
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logical positivist
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anthropocentrism
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pietism
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reification
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incommensurability
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essentialism
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literalism
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universalism
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parmenides
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secular humanism
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benthamite
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sociobiology
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malthusianism
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evolutionism
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unitarianism
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catastrophism
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holism
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oswald spengler
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casuistry
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auguste comte
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psychoanalysis
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structuralism
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perspicuity
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absolutism
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millennialism
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metaphysic
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punctuated equilibrium
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cogito
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theorization
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liberalism
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perfectibility
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vitalism
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moralism
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thomism
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dualist
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intellectuality
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behaviorism
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marxism
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logicians
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transcendentalism
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utopian socialism
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inductive reasoning
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functionalism
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indeterminacy
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soteriology
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medievalism
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anthroposophy
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heterodoxy
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pedantry
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historiography
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antinomian
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irrationalism
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empiricism
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