実じっ験けん論ろん

noun

positivism

Rare philosophical term referring to the doctrine that knowledge is based on sensory experience and empirical evidence. Often associated with 実証主義.

See also: 実証主義

• 19世せい紀きのフランスで、実じっ験けん論ろんは実じっ証しょう主しゅ義ぎの一いち部ぶとして発はっ展てんした。

  In 19th-century France, positivism developed as part of the positivist movement.

noun

experimentalism

Rare term for a philosophical stance emphasizing experiment and empirical methods as the basis of knowledge. Related to 実験主義.

See also: 実験主義

• 実じっ験けん論ろんは、理り論ろんよりも実じっ験けんを重じゅう視しする立たち場ばを指さすことがある。

  Experimentalism can refer to a position that values experiment over theory.