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  • "Fact is, I happened on it in the dictionary when I was turning up 'Empiricist' in a bit of a hurry.

    Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • This one is much more well-thought-out and proves the British are, once and for all, no longer the hidebound Empiricist nation that they once were.

    News: Museums as Social Network Heather McDougal 2009

  • In contrast, I stand with William James (and A.N. Whitehead) as a “Radical Empiricist.”

    Think Progress » Clinton: Media, Politicians Shouldn’t Fuel ‘Hatriot’ Groups With Anti-Government Rhetoric That Inspired McVeigh 2010

  • A 1710 work by the Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • A 1710 work by the Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Whilst, like all the Empiricist philosophers, both Locke and Berkeley agreed that there was an outside world, and it was this world which caused the ideas one has within one's mind, Berkeley sought to prove that the outside world was also composed solely of ideas.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • This one is much more well-thought-out and proves the British are, once and for all, no longer the hidebound Empiricist nation that they once were.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • Whilst, like all the Empiricist philosophers, both Locke and Berkeley agreed that there was an outside world, and it was this world which caused the ideas one has within one's mind, Berkeley sought to prove that the outside world was also composed solely of ideas.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • There are a number of other deep learning problems that face Empiricist theories Pinker has an excellent paper on the subject from around 1980.

    When is the logically impossible possible? GamesWithWords 2010

  • There are a number of other deep learning problems that face Empiricist theories Pinker has an excellent paper on the subject from around 1980.

    Archive 2010-09-01 GamesWithWords 2010

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