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Citation reference: Harvey, L., 2012-24, Social Research Glossary, Quality Research International, http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/socialresearch/
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Empiricist
Empiricist is a person or a contention, theory or position that supports or is based on the theory that all knowledge is experiential and derived from the senses, see Empiricism
Little (2011) states:
The core of the empiricist conception of science is a cluster of views concerned with the confirmation of scientific hypotheses and beliefs. Empiricist philosophy of science demands that scientific assertions must be provided with appropriate empirical support. And the purpose of empirical support is to enhance the likelihood that these assertions are true: that is, that the world is as the belief asserts. Empiricists are confident that empirical standards serve to eliminate false hypotheses and to give us some basis of confidence in the truth of other hypotheses. The core values of empiricist philosophy of science, then, are the centrality of empirical standards of belief assessment, the possibility of objectivity, and the possibility of scientific truth..
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