radical empiricism, n.All

Radical empiricism is grounded in the idea that to be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Radical empiricism is the postulate that The only things that should be debatable among philosophers should be things definable in terms drawn from experience.

Radical empiricism is the factual statement that the relations between things, conjunctive as well as disjunctive, are just as much matters of direct particular experience, neither more so nor less so, than the things themselves.

Radical empiricism is the assertion that experience includes both particulars and relations between those particulars, and that therefore both deserve a place in our explanations.

Radical empiricism is the assertion that the relations between things are at least as real as the things themselves.

Radical empiricism is the generalized conclusion that the parts of experience hold together by relations that are themselves parts of experience rather than by some extraneous trans-empirical connective support.

Radical empiricism is a metaphysics that refutes the rationalist belief in a being that transcends experience, which gives unity to the world.

Radical empiricism is grounded in the idea that any philosophical worldview is flawed if it stops at the physical level and fails to explain how meaning, values and intentionality can arise from that..