Opposed to or rejecting empiricism, the philosophy that all knowledge comes from experience and observation.
From anti- + empiric (from Latin empiricus, from Greek empeiria, experience). This philosophical term developed in 17th-century discussions about how we know things.
Rationalist philosophers like Descartes were somewhat antiempiric—they believed humans had innate ideas and reasoning alone could discover truth, opposing the purely experience-based learning that empiricists championed.
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