Noun
An empiric.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. George Santayana
Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricist posits the forms of being as constant. Max Horkheimer
The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is ‘metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribes his fate. Max Horkheimer
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? E. O. Wilson
The radical empiricist onslaught ... provides the methodological justification for the debunking of the mind by the intellectuals-a positivism which, in its denial of the transcending elements of Reason, forms the academic counterpart of the socially required behavior. Herbert Marcuse
Dandish was the ideal empiricist. Pushing back the borders of ignorance, that was his only reason for living. Sean Russell