The prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.
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Empiricism
Synonyms for "empiricism" (87 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (18)
altruistic ethicsanimalismaretaicsatomismbehaviorismcasuistrycategorical imperativechristian ethicscommonsense realismcomparative ethicscontrolcontrol experimentcontrolled experimentcut and trydeontologydialectical materialismearthlinessegoistic ethics
Strong matches (26)
Noun(7 words)
empirical methodempiricist philosophyevidence based learningexperience based knowledgeexperiential learningexperientialismhands on learning
epiphenomenalismethical formalismethical philosophyethologyethonomicseudaemonicsevolutionismexperimentexperimental designexperimental methodexperimental proofexperimentalismexperimentationgolden rulehedonismhistorical materialismhit and misshylomorphismhylotheism
Related words (43)
hylozoismintuitionismmarxismmaterialismmechanismmoral philosophynatural realismnaturalismnew realismnoble experimentperfectionismphilosophyphysicalismphysicismpositive philosophypositivismpragmaticismpragmatismr and drealism
Show 16 more words
representative realismresearch and developmentrule of thumbsecularismsituation ethicsstoicismsubstantialismtemporalitytentative methodtentativenesstestingtrialtrial and errortryingutilitarianismworldliness
Noun(7 words)
modern thoughtmore physics-experimentalquackeryscience-basednessscientific evidentialistscientificitysensationalism
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: altruistic ethics, animalism, aretaics, atomism, behaviorism.
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Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
9 entrieseducational methodepistemologyinvestigatinginvestigationmedical practicemethodologyphilosophical doctrinephilosophical theoryphilosophy
More specific
4 entriesCollocations
6 entriesempirical dataempirical evidenceempirical methodempirical observationempirical reasoningempirical study
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 24 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- емпиризъм noun (philosophical theory)
Catalan
1 entries- empirisme noun (philosophical theory)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 經驗主義 /经验主义 noun (philosophical theory)
- 經驗論 /经验论 noun (philosophical theory)
Czech
1 entries- empirismus noun (philosophical theory)
Dutch
1 entries- empirisme noun (philosophical theory)
Finnish
1 entries- empirismi noun (philosophical theory)
French
1 entries- empirisme noun (philosophical theory)
German
1 entries- Empirismus noun (philosophical theory)
Greek
2 entries- εμπειριοκρατία noun (philosophical theory)
- εμπειρισμός noun (philosophical theory)
Hindi
2 entries- अनुभववाद noun (philosophical theory)
- इंद्रियानुभववाद noun (philosophical theory)
Icelandic
2 entries- raunhyggja noun (philosophical theory)
- reynsluhyggja noun (philosophical theory)
Japanese
2 entries- 経験主義 noun (philosophical theory)
- 経験論 noun (philosophical theory)
Kazakh
1 entries- эмпиризм noun (philosophical theory)
Korean
1 entries- 경험론 noun (philosophical theory)
Polish
2 entries- aposterioryzm noun (philosophical theory)
- empiryzm noun (philosophical theory)
Portuguese
1 entries- empirismo noun (philosophical theory)
Romanian
1 entries- empirism noun (philosophical theory)
Russian
1 entries- эмпиризм noun (philosophical theory)
Spanish
1 entries- empirismo noun (philosophical theory)
Swedish
1 entries- empirism noun (philosophical theory)
Tamil
1 entries- பட்டறிவியம் noun (philosophical theory)
Thai
1 entries- ประสบการณ์นิยม noun (philosophical theory)
Ukrainian
1 entries- емпіризм noun (philosophical theory)
Vietnamese
1 entries- chủ nghĩa kinh nghiệm noun (philosophical theory)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
He never set out to work in the computer field or in business, and he certainly had no notions of becoming massively wealthy. He’s a multi-billionaire, for the record. No, what Reid Hoffman planned on becoming was a professor of philosophy. He’s still happy to expound upon the differences between analytic philosophers and continental philosophers. He knows his empiricism from his logical positivism, and as you’ll hear, computers found a way into his philosophy.
Source: tatoeba (12148976)
Empiricism teaches us that we are unceasingly and intimately in contact with a full, living, breathing Reality, that experience is a constant communion with the real.
Source: wiktionary
He agrees with Kant that Hume's empiricism is refuted de facto by the example of mathematics, whose judgments are synthetic a priori.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 11 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "empiricism"?
Closest matches include altruistic ethics, animalism, aretaics, atomism, behaviorism.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "empiricism"?
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