Constructive Empiricism?

Question: Constructive Empiricism!?

In simplier terms what is Constructive Empricism!? Can I have an example of constructive Empricism!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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"[Philosophers came to be divided] into two camps: those who claimed that man obtains his knowledge of the world by deducing it exclusively from concepts, which come from inside his head and are not derived from the perception of physical facts (the Rationalists)—and those who claimed that man obtains his knowledge from experience, which was held to mean: by direct perception of immediate facts, with no recourse to concepts (the Empiricists)!. To put it more simply: those who joined the [mystics] by abandoning reality—and those who clung to reality, by abandoning their mind!."

“For the New Intellectual,” For the New Intellectual, 30

"This debate was provoked primarily by the work of Bas van Fraassen, whose critique of scientific realism and defense of a viable alternative, which he called constructive empiricism, first reached a wide audience among philosophers with the publication of his 1980 book The Scientific Image!."

Constructive Empiricism: An Alternative To Scientific Realism
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