Empiricism in Hellenistic Medicine – Generalizations without Aetiologies

The Empiricists argued that medical knowledge is a matter of experience, and that no theory is required either for its formation or application. The central part of their position was rejecting the possibility of the discovery of causal connections by the use of reason. The theorems that make up med...

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Main Author: Maja Grgic Hudoletnjak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for the Advancement of Philosophy 2006-06-01
Series:Prolegomena
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Online Access:http://www.hrstud.hr/prolegomena/Pro-2006-1/Pro-2006-1-Cl%20Hudolet-Grgic.pdf