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BRITISH EMPIRICISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does British empiricism mean? 

BRITISH EMPIRICISM (noun)
  The noun BRITISH EMPIRICISM has 1 sense:

1. the predominant philosophical tradition in Great Britain since the 17th centuryplay

  Familiarity information: BRITISH EMPIRICISM used as a noun is very rare.


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BRITISH EMPIRICISM (noun)


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Meaning:

The predominant philosophical tradition in Great Britain since the 17th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("British empiricism" is a kind of...):

empiricism; empiricist philosophy; sensationalism ((philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience)


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