Quotes Tagged With :empiricism

Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and....

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out....

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting....

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural....

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended....

Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these....

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there....

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things....

Four Characters in Consciousness—How does it go on? We notice immediately four important characters....