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- noun Plural form of
empiricist .
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Examples
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Economics has essentially been under the exclusive sway of the supposed "empiricists" since WWII.
Barry Eichengreen's Theya Culpa, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One of the great historic controversies in philosophy is the controversy between the two schools called respectively 'empiricists' and 'rationalists'.
The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1921
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The "empiricists" have gone to the other extreme in leaving out of account fundamental facts in acoustics, physiology, and psychology.
Resonance in Singing and Speaking Thomas Fillebrown 1872
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There are just some scientists (some "empiricists" but not all), who simply bristle at any sort of computer modeling or at least are innately "skeptical" of computer modeling results.
RealClimate 2009
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Re AZ @ 270: "There are just some scientists (some" empiricists "but not all), who simply bristle at any sort of computer modeling or at least are innately" skeptical "of computer modeling results."
RealClimate 2009
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Historically, homeopaths are considered "empiricists" while conventional docs considered
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Historically, homeopaths are considered "empiricists" while conventional docs considered
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Historically, homeopaths are considered "empiricists" while conventional docs considered
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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[[User: Dana Ullman | Dana Ullman]] 13: 24, 26 October 2008 (UTC)::: Historically, homeopaths are considered "empiricists" while conventional docs considered "rationalists."
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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It is the so-called empiricists who say about science, "If it cannot be perceived or measured it can't be true."
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