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  • noun Plural form of empiricism.

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Examples

  • My views of Mr. Kirkham's system are thus publicly given, with the greater pleasure, on account of the literary empiricisms which have been so extensively practised in many parts of the western country.

    English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

  • Still more, if anything worth the name of Historical Science is to be constructed, must a mere collection of such empiricisms fail to content us; and the only way to give them a scientific character is to show deductively their common dependence upon various combinations of the same causes.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • It can remain religious like the rationalisms, but at the same time, like the empiricisms, it can preserve the richest intimacy with facts.

    Pragmatism William James 1876

  • 'Tis a sign, this sourness, that he is subject to none of the empiricisms that are afloat.

    Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • 'Tis a sign, this sourness, that he is subject to none of the empiricisms that are afloat.

    Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • 'Tis a sign, this sourness, that he is subject to none of the empiricisms that are afloat.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • The instances of new theories agreeing with and explaining old empiricisms, are innumerable.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839

  • The instances of new theories agreeing with and explaining old empiricisms, are innumerable.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • If, historically, science has attempted to obscure the subjectivity of its claims, what is the role of The Author in writing about empiricisms?

    Serendip's Exchange - 2009

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