EMPIRICIST PHILOSOPHY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience

Synonyms:

empiricism; empiricist philosophy; sensationalism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("empiricist philosophy" is a kind of...):

philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)

Domain category:

philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "empiricist philosophy"):

British empiricism (the predominant philosophical tradition in Great Britain since the 17th century)

experimentalism (an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles)

logical positivism; positivism (the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation))