Meanings
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noun
A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation.
Our whole life in some of its highest and most important aspects is simply empiricism. Empiricism is only another word for experience.
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Derived forms
antiempiricismmetempiricismneoempiricismpostempiricism
Etymology
From empiric + -ism.