Sentences with word «empiricist»

W head's metaphysical scheme seeks to satisfy the demands of empiricists on the one hand, and the demands of rationalists, on the other hand.

Proudfoot's dilemma presumes that just such a pure account of religious experience is claimed by all theologians who talk about religious experience; but this simply does not apply to American radical empiricists who assumed that experience is always already an interdependent combination of facts and values, objects and subjects.

Whitehead is a radical empiricist who understands human experience as a unity of largely unconscious feelings of the body and its environment.

Although opposed by Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Benthan, and Mill as empiricists regarding the origin of knowledge, they were more directly opposed to the romanticists - Rousseau, Fichte, Schelling, Schleiermacher, and Nietzsche, including many British poets and American transcendentalists, notably Emerson.

More specifically, Pope has ignored the challenge to Aristotelian «natures» from experimental observation as highlighted by empiricists from Francis Bacon onwards.

Prediction markets are something good empiricists on any side of an issue should happily flock to, particularly those who believe strongly enough in certain outcomes to bet on them.

If there is one thing that cognitive science has proven, it's that the old empiricist doctrine of people being born «blank slates» is utterly untenable.

The contrast between these versions of the functioning of primitive signs can be found in the British empiricist tradition.

David Hume Scottish Empiricist Philosopher, Historian, and Economist, Founder of Modern Skepticism Church of Scotland (Presbyterian)

Hume, building on insights of earlier empiricists, showed that sense experience gives us nothing more than sense data.

Philosopher William James said once that most people are not empiricists unless they are forced to be.

There had been a number of allusions to this, but, in the earlier Dialogues, Margaret had been mainly concerned to bring out how our participation in the «passage of nature» gives us a bare sense - awareness which is much richer than that presupposed in other empiricist accounts, notably the sense data account.

Empiricists tend to think that randomness and coincidence interact with the causal net of our world and that belief should depend on evidence for each individual claim.

The 18th century German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, was greatly influenced by Descartes and sought to unify the Rationalist and Empiricist Schools through an integrated approach which used both reason and sense experience.

This is our own empiricist criterion; and this criterion the stoutest insisters on supernatural origin have also been forced to use in the end.

There was a Baptist theological school in Chicago oriented to the social gospel and sensitive to the radical empiricist temper.

Where Hartshorne was highly rationalistic, Wieman was radically empiricist.

«David Hume was a Scottish Empiricist who believed that knowledge comes only from those things that we can directly observe.

It is important to understand that «experience» does not mean what many empiricists have meant, that is, conscious sense experience giving rise to thought.

In fact, he is a typical empiricist when he examines particular situations in order to get beyond particular situations, to find those universal principles that apply to all situations.

The exhibition is all about the clash between empiricists and people who depend on their instincts.

One study showed that climate modelers were largely in agreement with AGW, but that a majority of climate scientist empiricists were in disagreement with AGW.

In that sense he is, as are the majority of philosophers, a genetical empiricist (CSPM 31).

My father was a scientist — a chemist, who was an agnostic since that is the only intellectually honesst position for a thorough - going empiricist and my mother had an intuitive rather than a formal faith.

First, human beings are not by nature religious if by that we mean «by nature» in the positivist - empiricist sense of being compelled by some natural and irrepressible need, drive, instinct, or desire to be religious.

Lacking his master's certainty in absolute forms without any substance, delighted with all the things he could discover by his senses, Aristotle became the first empiricist, by an large indifferent to anything he couldn't hear, smell or feet The body is the real house of the soul, he insisted, an nothing gets to the soul — not pure knowledge and not any thing else — without the vital mediation of the flesh.

In other words, James believed that the associationists were poor empiricists, failing to report the complexities of conscious life.

Strict empiricists confuse the paints and palette with the finished canvas of truth itself.

Dr. Dean discusses Whitehead's empiricist aesthetics.

In this essay, I will emphasize Whitehead's empiricist aesthetic.

However, although theirs and other more recent empiricist writings remain vital and needed, they have not offered any sustained description of any particular history, let alone its common culture and its common good, as historical process thought would.