Sentence examples for constructive empiricist from inspiring English sources

The constructive empiricist disagrees.

But what about the constructive empiricist and the instrumentalist?

But this is a premise that the constructive empiricist rejects.

For an attempt at developing a constructive empiricist philosophy of mathematics, see Bueno 1999.

But belief in (A) is the belief the constructive empiricist contends is involved in theory acceptance.

Such an attitude might seem the natural epistemic one for the constructive empiricist to hold, insofar as the constructive empiricist is impressed by the cognitive limits that prevent us from having conclusive evidence in favor of any one particular theory.

The relatively permissive epistemological view of a constructive empiricist who is also an epistemic voluntarist helps explain why such a constructive empiricist would be prudent not to take constructive empiricism to be a normative theory concerning the deliverances of science.

The constructive empiricist can acknowledge that scientific realists also recognize that there is a pragmatic dimension to theory acceptance.

Here van Fraassen is allowing for the possibility that the constructive empiricist can reasonably be agnostic about the grid.

According to the constructive empiricist, "there is no purely epistemic warrant for going beyond our evidence" (van Fraassen 2007, 343).

Whether the constructive empiricist would ultimately want to endorse some fictionalist view about mathematical objects is an open question.