#empiricism__empiricist_philosophy__sensationalism  the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
  supertype:  philosophical_doctrine__philosophicaldoctrine__philosophical_theory__philosophicaltheory  a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy
  subtype:  experimentalism  an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles
  subtype:  logical_positivism__logicalpositivism__positivism  the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
     subtype:  Comtism  Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top

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