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British empiricism
the predominant philosophical tradition in Great Britain since the 17th century
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experimentalism
an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles
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logical positivism, positivism
the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
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Comtism
Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top
