empiriocriticism

noun

em·​pir·​io·​criticism

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: a scientifically oriented phenomenalistic form of empiricism that endeavors to reduce knowledge to a description of pure experience and eliminate all aspects of apriorism, metaphysics, and dualism

Word History

Etymology

partial translation of German empiriokritizismus, from empirio- + kritizismus criticism

First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined above

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