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empiricism
empiricism [Gr.,=experience], philosophical doctrine that all knowledge is derived from experience. For most empiricists, experience includes inner experience—reflection upon the mind and its operations—as well as sense perception. This position is opposed to rationalism in that it... Read more |
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Miller-Urey Experiment
Miller-Urey experiment A classic experiment in molecular biology , the Miller-Urey experiment, established that the conditions that existed in Earth's primitive atmosphere were sufficient to produce amino acids, the subunits of proteins comprising and required by living organisms. In essence, the... Read more |
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Octavia Hill
Hill, Octavia (1838–1912). Social reformer. Early influence from her grandfather, the sanitary reformer Dr Southwood Smith, and work with the Christian socialists, led to conviction of the need for better housing for the poor. A loan from John Ruskin (1865) enabled purchase of squalid... Read more |
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Exceptional Human Experience
Exceptional Human Experience (Journal) Semiannual journal founded and edited by Rhea A. White. Its central subject matter is exceptional human experience, which consists of experiences that begin as anomalous ones or anomalies of experience (first-time experiences) and when they become... Read more |
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Religious experience
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Most of the philosophical work on "religious experience" that has appeared since 1960 has been devoted to its phenomenology and epistemic status. Two widely shared assumptions help account for this—that religious beliefs and practices are rooted in religious feelings and... Read more |
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pyelitis
pyelitis (py-ĕ-ly-tis) n. inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney, usually caused by a bacterial infection. The patient experiences pain in the loins, shivering, and a high temperature. Treatment is by the administration of a suitable antibiotic, together with analgesics and a high fluid... Read more |
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complementarity principle
complementarity principle physical principle enunciated by Niels Bohr in 1928 stating that certain physical concepts are complementary. If two concepts are complementary, an experiment that clearly illustrates one concept will obscure the other complementary one. For example, an experiment that... Read more |
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Carl Rogers
ROGERS, CARL (1902–1987) American psychologist and therapist, Carl R. Rogers relied on personal experience as well as scientific inquiry to guide his methodology, much of which foreshadowed late-twentieth-century practice of psychotherapy. Rogers was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to a... Read more |
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dish-pan experiment
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experience
experience living through events and the impression on a person or animal of events. In epistemology, a distinction is made between things known inductively, from experience, and those known deductively or theoretically, from a priori principles. The ancients, under the influence of Plato and of... Read more |
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