empiricist

Examples from literature

As the result of all this study, research and empiricism, a great mass of alleged facts about physical characteristics has been accumulated. 
Empiricism thus gives no real account of the scientific rational order of the world. 
I've never tried it on humans: for I've never laid down any basis of knowledge, and I've always detested empiricism. 
Is experience to be dismissed as empiricism, with a sneer, because the wider rule is lacking? 
It was a conclusion of pure empiricism, and I, too, as you shall see, demonstrated it empirically. 

empiricism | American Dictionary

empiricism
noun[ U ]
us/ɪmˈpɪr·əˌsɪz·əm/
science
the belief in using empirical methods

Examples of empiricism

empiricism
Ultimately, though, corpus-based empiricism must not lose touch with the theoretical linguistic tradition in the study of linguistic change.
The epistemological beliefs characterising new course economics were the ideals of a naive empiricism rather than those of modern critical positivism.
This alternative partly situates itself between idealism and empiricism, between subjectivism and objectivism.
As a result, theoretical models of such flows include some empiricism.
Contextual empiricism invites the question: what controls background assumptions?
On the contrary, the modern concept of the supernatural is a by-product of scientific empiricism.
The shiny new empiricism eventually triumphed over the evil old rationalism and everyone lived happily ever after.
Skepticism about the quality of economic empiricism became a hallmark of those who took up the program of mathematical formalization.
The next step would seem obvious: test it systematically rather than rely on liberal thinking and empiricism.
A combination of a new idea and empiricism allows challenges to established thinking.
In the early part of the century, empiricism provided the dominant theoretical orientation to knowledge.
The core lesson of the last fifty years has been that both empiricism and nativism are wrong.
So it is that histories have appeared of empiricism versus rationalism, radicalism versus conservatism, science versus magic, and words versus things.
Empiricism treats the fact as identical with the real signified by it.
Naive empiricism, on the other hand, promised to restore economics as 'science' by allowing it to be an 'uncompromising pursuit of truth'.
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