Empiricism
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Term coined in the 1950s by the editors of the Architectural Review to describe the compromise between traditional and modern domestic architecture developed in war-time Sweden for large-scale social housing.
empiricism - The philosophical stance that experience, especially of the senses, is the only source of knowledge. Also, the use of empirical methods. Also see epistemology, interdisciplinary, metaphysics, ontology, phenomenology, and teleology.
Also see empiricism, epistemology, interdisciplinary, metaphysics, ontology, science and art, and teleology.
phenomenon - An occurrence, a circumstance, or a fact that is perceptible by the senses. The plural form is phenomena.
Influential to thinkers associated with Postmodernism are Heidegger's critique of the subject-object or sense-knowledge division implicit in Rationalism, Empiricism and Methodological Naturalism, ...
Unlike the extremely sylized depictions of flowers in the Middle Ages, Durer's Large Turf already reflects a considerable degree of empiricism: all botanical details are rendered with an almost microscopic precision, ...
of recognizing among a number of individuals some common feature, and on that basis forming the concept of that feature. The notion of abstraction is important to understanding some philosophical controversies surrounding empiricism and the problem ...
as a reaction against the seemingly empty pursuit of reflected light (i.e. objective reality) and the validation of the new middle-class society (i.e. the vulgar materialism), or the acceptance of "objective reality," a kind of visual Empiricism .
 See also: Movement, School, Perception, Roman, Painting
  
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