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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Empiricism.
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Turner (1993) has argued that Helmholtz's empirism was pragmatic-that Helmholtz adopted an empirist stance to meet the challenges of “imposing order on a chaotic new field of investigation” and of defending a strong stance in his lifelong debate with his nemesis, Ewald Hering
Hermann von Helmholtz Patton, Lydia 2008
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The dispute between Hering and Helmholtz is significant because of its import for the larger debate, in physiology and psychology, between empirism and nativism.
Hermann von Helmholtz Patton, Lydia 2008
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The most significant issues in the empirism versus nativism debate are how to explain perception of depth and relief.
Hermann von Helmholtz Patton, Lydia 2008
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Ei au fost atacat empirism noastre, şi atacat o cultură nu se bazează pe legile Abrahimic religioase.
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It looks a little as if the ancient english empirism, so long put out of fashion here by nobler sounding germanic formulas, might be repluming itself and getting ready for a stronger flight than ever.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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