The word empiricist refers to a person who believes in obtaining knowledge through practical experience rather than relying solely on theories or speculation. Its antonyms would, therefore, include words that suggest a preference for theory over practice. These include words like dogmatist, rationalist, idealist, theorist, and philosopher. A dogmatist, for instance, is someone who clings rigidly to predetermined beliefs or doctrines without any empirical evidence. A rationalist, on the other hand, is a person who emphasizes the use of reason and logic in understanding the world rather than observation or experience. An idealist is someone who believes in the power of ideals and principles to guide their actions, often at the expense of pragmatic considerations.

What are the antonyms for Empiricist?

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  • noun
  • Don Quixote
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  • Idealizer
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  • dreamer
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  • fantast
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  • ideologue
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  • romanticist
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Famous quotes with Empiricist

• The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

  E. O. Wilson
• For as a hedonist, Bentham apparently bases moral status not on the dignity of rational nature but rather solely on the capacity to feel pleasure and pain. And this is clearly different from the Kantian position. Yet I claim that Bentham’s idea here is in general terms not inconsistent with Kantian ethics but is instead a corollary of the Kantian position. I would even claim that Kantian ethics provides a better justification for it than Bentham’s hedonism–a shallow empiricist doctrine that cannot account properly even for the values it assigns to pleasure and pain in human beings. […] Nonhuman animals do not have the capacity to reason or to talk. Therefore, beyond making the obvious point that they are not persons in the strict sense, whether they have or lack these capacities is irrelevant to how we should treat them. Bentham is therefore correct in telling us not to ask about these matters when we are deciding how to treat animals. What is relevant, because it relates their capacities to those of rational nature, is the fact that they can suffer, and desire, and sometimes also care – about members of their own species, or even occasionally about members of other species, such as humans. Bentham is therefore also correct in telling us what we should ask about these capacities, for they are the relevant ones. Bentham is correct, however, not because Kant is wrong, but because Kant is right.

  Jeremy Bentham
• I am a trained empiricist, sir. Superstition is not compatible with my pursuits.

  Sean Russell
• Dandish was the ideal empiricist. Pushing back the borders of ignorance, that was his only reason for living.

  Sean Russell
• There is a certain category of fool—the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic "scientist", the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call "epistemic arrogance", this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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