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| Empiricism: a branch within epistemology which assumes that sensory perception is fundamental for setting up claims and theories. The opposite position, rationalism, assumes that even purely logical knowledge and conclusions from this knowledge may be sufficient for the building of theories. See also logical positivism, instrumentalism, rationalism, epistemology, theories, foundation, experiments, > inferentialism, knowledge, experience, science._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John D. Barrow on Empiricism - Dictionary of Arguments
I 36 Empiricism/positivism/Barrow: both empiricism and positivism claim that there are only individual facts, not universals. EmpirismusVsUniversals; PositivismVsUniversals. >Universals, >Facts, >Individuals, >Individuation, >Identification, cf. >Individual causation, >Causality, >Causation. I 42 Both Vsoperationalism/Vsinstrumentalism: theories can only be discovered, they cannot be invented. >Operationalism, >Instrumentalism, >Theories. I 39 VsEmpiricism/Barrow: a theory of elementary particles is more than a mere list of their properties. - It excludes useful terms because they are not observable. - So that it forbids any law of nature! >Observation, >Observation language, >Observation sentences, >Observability, >Unobservables, >Theoretical terms, >Theoretical entities, >Theory language, >Concepts._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
B I John D. Barrow Warum die Welt mathematisch ist Frankfurt/M. 1996 B II John D. Barrow The World Within the World, Oxford/New York 1988 German Edition: Die Natur der Natur: Wissen an den Grenzen von Raum und Zeit Heidelberg 1993 B III John D. Barrow Impossibility. The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits, Oxford/New York 1998 German Edition: Die Entdeckung des Unmöglichen. Forschung an den Grenzen des Wissens Heidelberg 2001 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27