One fears lest sooner or later a reaction against the contortions of this empiricism and psychism should lead to a modern rehabilitation of mysticism or occultism.
It is even more thoughtless than when the empiricists and sensationalists acclaim as their hero, Spinoza, the strict, pure rationalist, the despiser of empiricism and of knowledge acquired through the senses.
Along with strong expressions of empiricism we find him holding doctrines absolutely irreconcilable with empiricism in any form.
The Anglo-French school particularly represents empiricism and sensualism, that is to say, an almost exclusive importance attributed in all parts of human knowledge to experience in general, and especially to sensible experience.
Empiricism must be greatly feared to distrust the testimony of consciousness; and, after such a distrust, one must be very credulous to have a boundless faith in reasoning.
To empiricism we have opposed the insufficiency of sensation, and its own inevitable necessity to idealism.
Empiricism is, therefore, convicted of being unable to dispense with universal and necessary principles, and of being unable to explain them.
Not only is empiricism unable to explain universal and necessary principles; but we maintain that, without these principles, empiricism cannot even account for the knowledge of the sensible world.
Of course, if true, this cuts off radicalempiricism without even a shilling.
If we give to the monistic subspecies the name of philosophy of the absolute, we may give that of radical empiricism to its pluralistic rival, and it may be well to distinguish them occasionally later by these names.
Radical empiricismtakes conjunctive relations at their face-value, holding them to be as real as the terms united by them.
It is itself a part of the hegelian vision or intuition, and a part that finds the strongest echo in empiricism and common sense.
Let empiricismonce become associated with religion, as hitherto, through some strange misunderstanding, it has been associated with irreligion, and I believe that a new era of religion as well as of philosophy will be ready to begin.
Pluralistic empiricism knows that everything is in an environment, a surrounding world of other things, and that if you leave it to work there it will inevitably meet with friction and opposition from its neighbors.
As compared with all these rationalizing pictures, the pluralistic empiricism which I profess offers but a sorry appearance.
They will assuredly not be disappointed if they open their minds to what the thicker and more radical empiricism has to say.
Reduced to their most pregnant difference, empiricism means the habit of explaining wholes by parts, and rationalism means the habit of explaining parts by wholes.
So, in noticing Mr. Bradley, I will confine myself to the interests of radical empiricism solely.
You may say, and doubtless some of you now are saying inwardly, that his remanding us to sensation in this wise is only a regress, a return to that ultra-crude empiricism which your own idealists since Green have buried ten times over.
I have heard this reason urged so often in discussing with absolutists, and it would destroy my radical empiricism so utterly, if it were valid, that I am bound to give it an attentive ear, and seriously to search its strength.
Let God but have the least infinitesimal other of any kind beside him, and empiricism and rationalism might strike hands in a lasting treaty of peace.
The former hearty and self- assured empiricism of science is giving way before the outcome of its own logic and a new and more promising spirit of reflection on its own "categories" is abroad.
It will not do to press too closely analogies between the Radical Empiricism of the American and the Doctrine of Intuition of the Frenchman.
Thus his doctrine that that is true which is clear was turned to the account of an empiricism of which the "clearness" was really predetermined by the conviction of truth.
Let any man read the Stonyhurst manuals, and say whether the radical empiricism of the Modernists could find a lodgment anywhere in such a system without disturbing the stability of the whole.
Thus the empiricism of Newman leads logically to consequences which he would have been among the first to reject.
The philosophy of empiricism has been particularly developed by English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, such as Locke, Hume, and J.
The term empiricism is, however, now applied to any philosophical system which finds all its material in experience.
The Source and Criterion of Knowledge according toEmpiricism and Rationalism.
Sidenote: The Source and Criterion of Knowledge According to Empiricism and Rationalism.
Furthermore, since empiricism is congenial to naturalism, it is an easy step to say that nature is directly known in perception.
But the empiricism with which Schopenhauer began, the appeal to a familiar experience of self as will, has meanwhile been forgotten.
Indeed, it exhibits an almost irrepressible tendency to overstep the bounds both of empiricism and subjectivism, an historical connection with which alone justifies its introduction in the present chapter.
The contending parties are recruited essentially from the positions of traditional empiricism and rationalism and from their modern offshoots.
But empiricism in this field means psychological analysis.
However, this agreement of two opposing views is no proof that empiricism is on the right road.
As we know, empiricism since Hume has answered the last question in the affirmative, and rationalism since Kant has answered it in the negative.
Even by Kant himself, on this very point, the synthesis of empiricism and rationalism is far from being elaborated with the necessary rigor and consistency.
So the spirit of empiricism has here as at other points completely prevailed.
But pure empiricism will not succeed in answering this question.
Empiricism has long ago taken this step, and the most consistent among its modern German representatives has aroused anew the impulses that make it necessary.
Both empiricism and the theory of innate ideas had agreed in regarding all knowledge as something given, from without or from within.
One must either go back toward the position of the old empiricism which assumed the reality of the world exactly as it appeared, or else one must go forward to an idealism more thorough-going than Kant had planned.
You seem to take radical empiricismmore simply than I can.
I am sure that, be it in the end judged true or false, it is essential to the evolution of clearness in philosophic thought that someone should defend a pluralistic empiricism radically.
Starting from the subtle empiricism of Aristotle, it flows in the profound penetration of Vico to the nineteenth century, where it appears again in the masterly analyses of Schleiermacher, Humboldt, and De Sanctis.
The philosopher feels that he has a great mission, which is nothing less than the leading back of thought to belief in the spirit, deserted by so many for crude empiricism and positivism.
But the juristic empiricism by which the ius ciuile was made into a law of the world needed something more than a theoretical incentive.
Given an attractive philosophical theory of enforcement of promises, our courts in a new period of growth will begin to shape the law thereby and judicial empiricism and legal reason will bring about a workable system along new lines.
It was a process very like that by which Anglo-American judicial empiricism has been able to make a law of the world on the basis of the legal precepts of seventeenth-century England.
Empiricism on the other hand is satisfied with the type of noetic unity that is humanly familiar.
Empiricism starts from the parts, and makes of the whole a collection-is not averse therefore to calling itself pluralistic.
Now pragmatism, devoted tho she be to facts, has no such materialistic bias as ordinary empiricism labors under.
Superficially this sounds like Kant's view; but between categories fulminated before nature began, and categories gradually forming themselves in nature's presence, the whole chasm between rationalism and empiricism yawns.
You find empiricism with inhumanism and irreligion; or else you find a rationalistic philosophy that indeed may call itself religious, but that keeps out of all definite touch with concrete facts and joys and sorrows.
Empiricism has by no means been eliminated from the scientific or would-be scientific world.
Yet the fact must be recognised, that even if Empiricism does maintain the impossibility of knowledge, it is neither Scepticism itself, nor would it suit the Sceptic to take that sect upon himself.
In the first book of the Hypotyposes he takes strong ground against the identity of Pyrrhonism and Empiricism in medicine.
He is called one of the leaders of Empiricism by Pseudo-Galen, and his only medical work bore the title [Greek: empeirika hupomnêmata.
Some say that the medical sect called Empiricism is the same 236 as Scepticism.
Hence we see on all sides, side by side with dogma in the classical sciences of law, economy, and politics, empiricism in the laws themselves.
To dominate the world co-operation is better than policy, and empiricism safer than inspiration.
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricismhas sworn never to draw them.
The principle of psychological empiricism is to look for the elements employed in thinking, and to conclude that thought is nothing but those elements arranged in a certain order.
This empiricism does not look to the building up of science, but rather to a more thorough criticism and disintegration of conventional beliefs, those of empirical science included.
Accordingly his empiricismtook an introspective form; like Hamlet he stopped at the how; he began to think about thinking.
Empiricism used to mean reliance on the past; now apparently all empirical truth regards only the future, since truth is said to arise by the verification of some presumption.
In any case, we are led to this curious result: that radical empiricismought to deny that any idea of the past can be true at all.
What prevented British empiricism from coming to this obvious conclusion was a peculiarity of the national temperament.
I think it is important to remember, if we are not to misunderstand William James, that his radical empiricism and pragmatism were in his own mind only methods; his doctrine, if he may be said to have had one, was agnosticism.
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