Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
topic: Tasks, Metaphysics, Empiricism

topic: Study, Contradictory, Empiricism
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
topic: Experience, Conclusion, Draws, Drawing Conclusions, Empiricism
source: William James (1976). “Essays in Radical Empiricism”, p.22, Harvard University Press
topic: Elements, Construction, Radical, Empiricism
topic: Believe, Quitting, Being True, Empiricism
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
source: "E.O. Wilson Is on Top of the World". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1998.
topic: Heart, Winning, Mind, Empiricism
topic: Empiricism, Determinism, Assertion, Synthetic, Hume
topic: Fierce, Lyrical, Aspect, Practicality, Empiricism
topic: Real, Law, Determined, Empiricism
topic: Mind, Speculation, Indulgence, Empiricism
Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
source: Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.363, Princeton University Press
topic: Successful, Science, Lasts, Most Wanted, Empiricism
source: "A Wild and Crazy Guy". Comedy album by Steve Martin, 1978.
topic: Believe, Mean, Science, Empiricism
source: Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.148, Macmillan
topic: Commitment, Technology, Issues, Knowledge Of The World, Reassurance
topic: Eye, Trying, Use, Empiricism
source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics
topic: Life, Stars, Eye, Sun Moon, Sun Moon And Stars
source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.307, Courier Corporation
topic: Real, Space, Transcendentalism, Empiricism
topic: Stupidity, Religion, Rewards, Empiricism
source: "All That" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.
topic: Religious, Powerful, Connections, Empiricism
topic: Philosophy, Latter, Method, Empiricism
source: William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1978). “Essays in Philosophy”, p.59, Harvard University Press
topic: Lying, Data, Wish, Empiricism
topic: Philosophical, Yield, Opposites, Empirical Evidence, Deductions
source: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly ImprobableFragility"”, p.32, Random House
topic: Views, Opposites, Support, Empiricism
topic: Science, Degrees, Problem, Empiricism
topic: Together, World, Letters, Empiricism, Scholasticism
topic: Book, Self, Average, Gullibility, Jesuit
topic: Doubt, Different, Belief, Faith And Doubt, Empiricism
topic: Life, Failure, Knowledge, Outer Worlds, Space Time
topic: Mean, Science, Reality, Empiricism
source: George H. Smith (2000). “Why Atheism?”, Pyr Books
topic: Philosophy, Profound, Atheism, Subordination, Empiricism
topic: Real, Community, Doctrine, Empiricism, Creationist
source: Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc
topic: Hands, Facts, Different, Empiricism, Comparative Religion
topic: Father, Hero, Thinking, Empiricism, Rational Thought