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empiriocriticism

noun
em·​pir·​io·​criticism | \ "+\

Definition of empiriocriticism

: 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

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First Known Use of empiriocriticism

1897, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for empiriocriticism

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

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