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Empiricism in Science and Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

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The term ‘Empiricism’ has had at least two different, though not unconnected, applications in modern thought, one to scientific method and the other to philosophical theory. My intention in this lecture is to try to show that, while these two applications of the term have a common source, their actual referents are widely divergent and in large measure even mutually incompatible.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1975

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References

page 155 note 1 Hume, David, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.Google Scholar

page 156 note 1 Book I, pt ii, section vi.

page 161 note 1 I have done so elsewhere. See Hypothesis and Perception, chs II, IV.

page 164 note 1 Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, trans de Salvio, Crew and Favaro, (Evanston, Illinois, 1950) p. 176.Google Scholar