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n. Use of empirical or experimental methods in determining the validity of ideas.

n. An experimental practice or tendency, especially in the arts

n. An empirical or pragmatic approach which emphasizes the importance of experimentation

n. an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles.

n. an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation.

n. That philosophy which regards observation of fact as affording the only assurance of positive truth, as distinguished from mere mathematical truth; the philosophy which was naturally developed out of the prosecution of the experimental sciences; the school of English philosophy of Locke, Berkeley, Hartley, the Mills, and others, together with Hume.

n. Experimental research in some branch of science.

n. an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation

n. an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles

"The opposition between "experimentalism" and "craftsmanship" is patently obvious, of course, and we know before reading the rest of the review that we ought to avoid Lutz because he isn't a "craftsman.""

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