Yale University Press eBooks· 2017· Book chapter

The Empirical Stance

Bas C. van Fraassen

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Empiricism is best understood not by fixed doctrines but as a philosophical stance characterized by critique of metaphysics and a focus on experience, requiring a voluntarist view of belief.

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