Antiempiricist

/ˌæntiɛmˈpɪrɪsɪst/ noun

Definition

A person who opposes empiricism or rejects the philosophy that knowledge comes from experience and observation.

Etymology

From antiempiricism + -ist (suffix for a person who follows a belief). This term names the adherent of an antiempiricist philosophy.

Kelly Says

Plato was somewhat of an antiempiricist—he believed in eternal, unchanging Forms or Ideas that could only be understood through pure reason, not by looking at imperfect physical examples in the world.

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