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Empiricism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the philosophical concern with the world as it is experienced by an embodied, embedded, and acting agent.

Empiricism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a philosophical orientation whose task is to explicate the lived structures that constitute our uniquely human way of being in the world.

Empiricism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠often treated wrongheadedly in a way that always does away with the connections of things. Insodoing empiricism (a la Hume) unnecessarily requires artificial correction by means of adding in trans-experiential agents of unification, substances, intellectual categories and powers, or Selves.

Empiricism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the commitment to consider the wide range of experience 'seriously and open-minded,' and to ponder the best way to describe it and to take pains not define the experience in advance.

Empiricism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the commitment to knowledge, but to the fact that one is not only never, but cannot possibly ever be, sure that one knows, even when one knows.

Empiricism (n.) aims ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠at understanding how things are constituted qua things through the integration and assembling of various parts.

Empiricism's (n.) lasting ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠truth is that the bottom of being is left logically opaque to us.