EMPIRICISMS
- EMPIRICISM [n]
- EMPIRICISM, pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment [n]
- The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume
- Practice based on experiment and observation
- Ignorant or unscientific practice; quackery