Wilhelm Dilthey (November 19, 1833 - October 1, 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher. Dilthey could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, … Wikipedia
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