Quotes of: Empiricism Keyword

Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.

Problems of Empiricism: Philosophical Papers: Problems of Empiricism v. 2 (Philosophical Papers

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

David Whyte

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

E. O. Wilson

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

George Santayana

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

Killosophy

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

William James

Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.

How Nature Cures Comprising a New System of Hygiene; Also the Natural Food of Man

Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.

An Introduction to Philosophy

Empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its meth...

Steve Martin

Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering the nature of things in light of higher principles; instead, it caused them to l...

Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition

Understand that religion, at least western versions of it, rests on a type of thinking called Revelation. This mode holds that truths concerning the workings of reality are hidden, masked by, through or behind a deity such that only a few privileged ...

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth