empirico

The theory here proposed may be called empirico-intellectualism since it conjoins a sensuous factor with the purely intellectual or immaterial agency in the genesis of knowledge.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

These counternarratives were simply perceived as more effective than appeals to the "historical record," because there just was no such thing as a shared empirico-rational view of that conceptual scheme, and it has nothing to do with anybody's wits, dim or otherwise.

The Death of the Mythical Messiah James F. McGrath 2010

His attachment was to the new Newtonian empirical scientists, and while he was never more than a dilettante scientist himself, his devotion to this form of natural inquiry made him in some respects the leading philosophical advocate and ideologist for the new empirico-scientific conception of philosophy that Newton initiated.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

Historically, the Hebrew Bible which originates mainly between the late second and late first millennium B.C. is written in the empirico-logical stage—although it preserves a few proto-logical vestiges.

The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994

He presents a sequence of “three principal stages in the development of human thinking,” which he calls proto-logical, empirico-logical and logical.

The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994

That matter itself, even when looked upon from a purely physical standpoint, has an incorporeal principle; that the whole world of bodies, as such, has but a phenomenal character; that not force _and_ matter are the two empirico-physical principles of the world, but that matter itself must be a product of elementary {142} force active in the atoms; these doctrines have now be pretty nearly common property of natural science and philosophy.

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

I must be content to refer the reader to the great work I have mentioned, in which it is thoroughly established from the empirico-philosophical point of view.

The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

My view is that, whatever good-faith attempts have been made to interrogate the starting assumptions and I can admit there have been plenty, this has nevertheless resulted in a field where "legends growing up around genuine historical figures" is a privileged kind of ancient creativity, to be preferred as an explanation unless disproven as a possibility beyond doubt, perhaps also partly for reasons that I allude to above: it's what we consider reasonable and non-arbitrary from our empirico-rationalist epistemology, a way of structuring the world simply not freely available or obviously useful to ancient persons.

Is There Evidence For Mythicism? James F. McGrath 2010