Full Idea
Empiricism resulted from a need for concrete content, as opposed to abstract theories that cannot advance from universal generalizations to the particular, and for a firm hold against the possibility of proving any claim at all in the field.
Gist of Idea
Empiricism made particular knowledge possible, and blocked wild claims
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Logic (Encyclopedia I) [1817], §37)
Book Reference
Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'The Hegel Reader', ed/tr. Houlgate,Stephen [Blackwell 1998], p.151
A Reaction
That sounds about right, and makes you wonder why Hegel wasn't an empiricist.
Related Idea
Idea 15620 Empiricism contains the important idea that we should see knowledge for ourselves, and be part of it [Hegel]