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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7 words match “EMPIRICISM”

EMPIRICISM n. 3 definitions
The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.
METEMPIRICISM n.
The science that is concerned with metempirics.
CHARLATANRY n.
Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
QUACKERY n.
The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.
RATIONALISM n.
tional power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism. Fleming.
TRANSCENDENTAL a.
damental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere o…
TRANSCENDENTALISM n.
The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.