What's the difference between empiricist and rationalist?
Empiricist
Definition:
(n.) An empiric.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theorists and empiricists have suggested that males and females may address the identity task differently.
(2) The author suggests that the empiricist approach in biological psychiatry requires critical scrutiny in order to avoid tragic consequences, regarding the hazards both to patients arbittrarily exposed to lithium therapy, as well as to the scientific concept of disease as it is modified by those who wish to re-define disease, empirically, in terms of response to treatment.
(3) Zoellner's use of Helmholtz's arguments to advance and defend his spiritist views occasioned strong criticism of Helmholtz, affected careers and reputations of scholars in Berlin and Leipzig, and caused enduring controversy over the credibility of Helmholtz's empiricist theory of space perception.
(4) Following the evolution of the scientific world, nursing first embraced the logical empiricist perspective of discovering and knowing.
(5) This process should be extended by reviewing historical stages of development in empiricist and postempiricist philosophy.
(6) In the process, conventional empiricist criteria of reliability and validity are critiqued, and more appropriate concepts representing dimensions of adequacy in feminist research are presented.
(7) He evaluates prominent approaches to the problem of knowledge, particularly those of the "subjectivists" and "relativists," such as Schafer and Spence, and the "empiricists" and "inductivists," such as the proponents of DSM-III.
(8) "Empiricists" and "clinicians", in especial those in the field of psychoanalysis, have reached divergent views on the significance of early childhood experiences for neurotic affections in the adult.
(9) Spence's basic assumptions are classically empiricist and positivistic.
(10) However, empiricist "learning theories" of all types are far too weak to be useful in explaining either the final adult language or the precise timing of developmental processes.
(11) The functionalist approach of conventional epidemiology, characterized by an empiricist viewpoint, is being overcome by a more rigorous and analytical approach.
(12) 17.5 per cent fall within the category of traditional birth attendant, 50 per cent are trained empiricists and 11.6 per cent are non-trained empiricists.
(13) The history of lithium in medicine reveals a strictly empiricist approach to its use which has resulted in its varying popularity as a therapeutic treatment over the past century.
(14) Samuel George Morton, self-styled objective empiricist, amassed the world's largest pre-Darwinian collection of human skulls.
(15) The philosophical convictions of Hermann von Helmholtz and the empiricist psychology he developed have been extensively discussed in historical literature.
(16) These developed at a different pace in different countries, due, in each case, to the dominant philosophies of the time: the English empiricists; the French Enlightenment; the Italian and German schools of experimental neurophysiology.
(17) The empiricist theories of medical language commonly employed both by comparative ethnosemantic studies and by medical theory are unable to account for the integration of illness and the language of high medical traditions into distinctive social and symbolic contexts.
(18) Until the 18th century this disease was studied with interest and found a place in the books of several important authors, but in practice it was treated by empiricists and barbers.
Rationalist
Definition:
(n.) One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a self-described rationalist, she felt compelled to act.
(2) I just don’t understand what the problem is for the Liberal party, which is meant to be the economic rationalist party, to support that.” The Climate Institute said it hoped to see Australia’s timeline for setting post-2020 emissions reduction goals in New York.
(3) Explanations of rural-urban fertility differentials have normally lain in assumptions about the traditionalist nature of rural, and especially agricultural, societies in contrast to the more rationalist and modern attitudes towards the family that exist in urban societies.
(4) Lichtenberg is shown to have insisted upon the need for a systematic and rationalistic study of dreams, to have analyzed individual dreams (describing them as dramatized representations of thoughts, associations, and even conflicts from his own waking life), and to have emphasized the functional link between dreams and daydreams.
(5) Thus, my solution generates its own contradiction for I have again, as Scholnick argues, based my solution at some level of organicism: a point that will not escape the discerning realist or, for that matter, the discerning rationalist.
(6) One after another incident is happening and they are not able to do anything.” Debasish Debu, a friend of Das, said the 33-year-old banker was also an editor of a quarterly magazine called Jukti (Logic) and headed the Sylhet-based science and rationalist council.
(7) The modified conceptions of health and illness can help to overcome the division between subject and object, a consequence of Cartesian rationalistic thought.
(8) One of the major problems that surrounds this molecule is the myocardial contractility depression, the solution of which could allow a more rationalistic therapeutic approach to that which remains one of the most complex and delicate clinical framework.
(9) Into the electric world intrude elements that displace modernity – ghosts, monsters, devil worship and, for some rationalists, religion itself.
(10) Rationalistic simplifications in legal quarters, changes in legal procedures and bureaucracy have had negative effects on the field of forensic medicine.
(11) Explicit motivations tend to be objective and rationalist, concerned with such goals as the advancement and organization of knowledge.
(12) Two approaches to decision making are outlined: the rationalist perspective and the phenomenological perspective, and a model illustrating each is discussed.
(13) It’s the single greatest threat to our way of life since the 1940s.” Jeremy Lawrence, who had donned a papier-mâché shark as a hat, said he was marching as an “economic rationalist and libertarian”.
(14) Baez rebelled young and not for the sake of it; she was a little rationalist.
(15) Tolstoy used the character of Prince Bolkonski to exemplify the rationalistic, Western-influenced aristocracy that dominated Russia at the end of the 18th century.
(16) As rationalists, should one also reject the Queen's Christmas message Robin It definitely exists.
(17) Are there any rationalist jokes that would be suitable for a Christmas cracker?
(18) These two ways of knowing have been variously described by Bruner as paradigmatic vs. narrative, by Kuzel as rationalistic vs. naturalistic, and by Stephens as seeing vs. hearing.
(19) rationalistic) casted beyond the reefs of knowing the author tries to find traces to make up a new perspective of the horizon.
(20) This paper attacks the Kantian conception of mortality that predominates in our society and the rationalist educational strategies that flow from it.