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Constructive empiricism

Overview

form of empiricism in philosophy of science

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The process in both cases is one of reconstruction, and the test of the validity of the reconstruction must in both cases be of the same essentially practical character. In both cases the process is constructive of reality, in the functional signification of the term. In both, the judgment process is constructive also of the self, in the sense that upon the determination of the agent's future attitude the cumulative…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
Close in meaning to Constructive empiricism; the term itself is not named.
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Of course this has in no way interfered with the freedom of application of mathematical technique to the problems of physical science. On the contrary, it was on account of the richness and variety of the contents which the use of mathematical methods in the physical sciences imported into the doctrine that this logical housecleaning became necessary in mathematics. The movement has been not only logical as…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
Close in meaning to Constructive empiricism; the term itself is not named.
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The examination and consideration of everything that exists in space or time—whether it is a quantum or not, in how far the particular something (which fills space or time) is a primary substratum, or a mere determination of some other existence, whether it relates to anything else—either as cause or effect, whether its existence is isolated or in reciprocal connection with and dependence upon others, the…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
States what Constructive empiricism is.
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Philosophers who discussed Constructive empiricism

Bas van Fraassen

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Place in the tradition

Part of Instrumentalism.

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