Empiricists

Debates over monetary policy reflect a split between theorists and empiricists, writes Christina Romer: Empiricists, as the name suggests, put most weight on the evidence.

Wonkbook: Government shutdown delayed 2011

Different unions, Empiricists mostly, worked the suburbs where they could make a plain argument for their effectiveness.

The Dadaist 2010

From Spinoza to the British Empiricists to the Founding Fathers, we inherit a notion that society can, and should, make laws to create conditions in which society can stay in existence and flourish.

Dr. Philip Neches: Three Out of Ten? 2010

The Empiricists regarded this knowledge as suspect because it could not be tested, or rationally explained.

The Dadaist 2010

Popper, and many 'British Empiricists' amongst others who are broadly on the side of the angels, could line up with "thinking which is isolated from practice is a purely scholastic"

A Hopeful New Year Newmania 2007

Interestingly, in discussing “personal knowledge,” the Mohists do not posit any sort of intermediary, such as the British Empiricists 'ideas or impressions, that stands between objects and the mind.

Mohist Canons Fraser, Chris 2009

Then there are the Rationalists and Empiricists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

But this conception was prevalent in the early modern period, shared by both the British Empiricists and Leibniz, for example.

Analysis Beaney, Michael 2009

Then there are the Rationalists and Empiricists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

Empiricists tell us that our minds are sensation collectors, blank slates that scoop up impressions from the world; Rationalists that the mind is best understood as a repository for those innate ideas that make it possible for us to think.

Losing your mind to Christ 2009