scientific empiricism

American  

noun

1. the philosophy that there are no real differences between the sciences.

2. the theory that all sciences are ultimately based on experience and observation.

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Example Sentences

Secular people are generally more trusting of scientific empiricism, and various studies have shown that the nonreligious are more likely to accept the evidence behind human-generated climate change.

From Salon

For although it was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who first introduced the inoculation procedure to Western medicine, it was Caroline who, in the new spirit of scientific empiricism, arranged experiments, and who, by inoculating her own children, spread the practice more widely.

From Economist

His banner would be scientific empiricism; his field, the coral reefs of the world.

From Slate

These elementary remarks are not superfluous; for they make clear that the casually expressed assertion of modern natural scientific empiricism, declaring in effect that there is no such thing as necessity of thought, goes altogether too far.

From Project Gutenberg

In a word, scientific empiricism was beginning to gain a hearing in medicine as against the metaphysical preconceptions of the earlier generations.

From Project Gutenberg