Abstract:The German philosopher Richard Avenarius was the founder of ‘empiriocriticism’, a school that aimed at establishing a scientific and purely empirical philosophy. Avenarius’ idea of an energy-saving principle regulating knowledge, and his refusal of the distinction between a psychical inner world and a physical outer world were shared by Ernst Mach, thus the term empiriocriticism was later used to indicate them both. Avenarius elaborated a theory of knowledge based on the advances of physiological and experimen… Show more
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