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...hallmark is that I'm an empiricist, and as such I need to leave my office from time to time to talk with labor leaders," Medoff says, adding. "Someone who's a theorist may gain less...
Favorable Moment. How much has Ho been an international Communist revolutionary? How much has he been a patriot using the revolution as a handy tool? Obviously he has been both. Lacouture examines both sides of the case and settles for calling him an "ingenious empiricist," a "highly unusual practitioner of Marxism," a master strategist of the "favorable moment." But there is not much doubt that the autonomy of Viet Nam has been the one uncompromising goal of Ho's long, tenacious career...
Ultimately, he declares, good religious beliefs must be determined by the empiricist criterion. "By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots." "Their value can only be ascertained by spiritual judgments directly passed upon them, judgments based on our own immediate feeling primarily; and secondarily on what we can ascertain of their experiential relations to our moral needs and to the rest of what we hold as true...
There is also a change in the scientist's philosophical attitude towards his field. So-called dilemmas, such as the wave-particle controversy, have caused many scientists to shy from the logical empiricist view of interpreting each theory as a step nearer the "real" picture of the world. Conant abandons this view for a modern form of pragmatism in the William James tradition. Conceptual schemes, he feels, are policies, guides to action, not creeds, each bringing us close to the discovery of nature's laws...
...Empiricist. In St. Paul, James McVey, 78, charged with drunkenness, got off with a suspended sentence by explaining that he had never been drunk before and just wanted to see what it was like...