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Six example sentences with empiricism, each labelled with its topic.
Locke's empiricism holds that a newborn mind carries no ready-made ideas and fills only through what the senses deliver.
Philosophy
Ship surgeons trusted authority until a plain empiricism, comparing sailors given citrus with those given none, settled the question.
Medicine
Behaviorist empiricism pushed the lab to record only what could be seen and timed, never what the animal might feel.
Psychology
Modern science rests on empiricism, since no theory survives long once careful observation stops supporting it.
Science
The Royal Society's motto, roughly take nobody's word for it, announced the empiricism that would define the next century.
History
The Impressionists practiced a kind of empiricism, painting the color the eye actually met rather than the color the mind expected.
Art
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