empiriocriticism

noun

A philosophy based on knowledge and experience without any metaphysics

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Meanings

nounempiriocriticism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesA philosophy based on knowledge and experience without any metaphysics

    The defeat of liberalism was also the end of bourgeois materialism in Germany, and its philosophical counterparts were neo-Kantianism and empiriocriticism.

    1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 276

Translations

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