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empiriocriticism

A name for the version of positivism developed by Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (1838-1916) and the German Richard Avenarius (1843-1896), and coming between the original positivism of Auguste Comte (1798-1857) and the later logical positivism.

Science on this view aims at the most economical description of appearances, on which predictions of further appearances can be based; but all appeal to hidden entities or causes, not only metaphysical (as for Comte) but scientific too, is banned.

The system was criticized by Vladimir I Lenin (1870-1924) in his Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908 translated by Abraham Fineberg (1947)).

Source:
E Mach, Popular Scientific Lectures (1898, German original 1894 or 1896) 186

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    • 2.1 Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on A Reactionary Philosophy
    • 2.2 Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Full Text of 1909 Edition (Illustrated)
    • 2.3 Leninist Dialectics and the Metaphysics of Positivism: Reflections on V.I. Lenin's Book, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
    • 2.4 Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
    • 2.5 MATERIALISM AND EMPIRIO-CRITICISM. VOL. XIII
    • 2.6 Materialism and empirio-criticism
    • 2.7 Some Problems of Morphology in the Light of V. I. Lenin's Work 'Materialism and Empiriocriticism'
    • 2.8 Scientific Session Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of V.I. Lenin's Book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
    • 2.9 Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Illustrated and Bundled with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Library)
    • 2.10 Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Notes Concerning a Reactionary Philosophy (Collected Works of V.I. Lenin, Volume XIII)

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