Empiricists

Economics has essentially been under the exclusive sway of the supposed "empiricists" since WWII. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the great historic controversies in philosophy is the controversy between the two schools called respectively 'empiricists' and 'rationalists'. ❋ Bertrand Russell (1921)

The "empiricists" have gone to the other extreme in leaving out of account fundamental facts in acoustics, physiology, and psychology. ❋ Thomas Fillebrown (1872)

There are just some scientists (some "empiricists" but not all), who simply bristle at any sort of computer modeling or at least are innately "skeptical" of computer modeling results. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Re AZ @ 270: "There are just some scientists (some" empiricists "but not all), who simply bristle at any sort of computer modeling or at least are innately" skeptical "of computer modeling results." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Historically, homeopaths are considered "empiricists" while conventional docs considered ❋ Unknown (2008)

[[User: Dana Ullman | Dana Ullman]] 13: 24, 26 October 2008 (UTC)::: Historically, homeopaths are considered "empiricists" while conventional docs considered "rationalists." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Clever and relatively open-minded empiricists rule the roost. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Debates over monetary policy reflect a split between theorists and empiricists, writes Christina Romer: Empiricists, as the name suggests, put most weight on the evidence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yet, the empiricists still are appreciably short of hegemonic power - particularly at the grassroots level. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is the so-called empiricists who say about science, "If it cannot be perceived or measured it can't be true." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Show me the empiricists – and not just in the sciences – who are out there doing it, rather than talking about and analysing the people who are doing it. ❋ Unknown (2012)

By the twentieth century, the empiricists had pretty much carried the day. ❋ Seth Mnookin (2011)

The money-shovelers are empiricists, in other words, and their opponents are know-nothings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An Empiricist is a [philosopher] or a [sage]. A person with great [knowledge]. ❋ Julio N. (2007)

[Conspiracy empiricists] often think just because a dominant theory is mostly sufficient for explaining most of a phenomena doesn't [mean one] shouldn't attempt to [teak] the theory via experiments to find more information. ❋ MurdochMaxwell (2020)