Empiricism is the view that knowledge comes from sense experience.
Empiricism is the view that knowledge comes from sense experience.
Notable empiricist philosophers include Locke, Hume and Quine.
Questions tagged [empiricism]
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Who said they were hiding in the woods?
In my undergraduate days, I remember reading someone occupying roughly a mental and historical space as David Hume (originally my thought was between Hume and Kuhn), and have a vaguely recalled passage that I would like to source. Though on first…
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How does the modern notion of 'empiricism' stack up against the Platonist and Neoplatonist concept of mind and understanding above sense and opinion?
That is to say, the interpretation of visual-auditory-tactile-kinesthetic (VATK) perception (the empiric)--usually translated, in modern gestalt theory, as form or shape--should take a more holistic approach. By extrapolation, this--form or…
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Is it (not) possible to know causality from empirical knowledge?
I am reading a critique of a writer on empiricism where the author states that empiricism only tells us sequence of events or informs our mind what the cause and effects are but we can not perceive a specific relation between the two which he calls…
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is there an example of an empirical math equation?
It would be great if your example was from a respectable philosopher but anything will do. currently I am writing a debate case based on the resolution of "rationalism should be valued over empiricism" and I can not find and example of empirical…
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Is Constructivism a solid middle-ground between Empiricism and Rationalism?
Is Constructivism a good compromise between the radicalist views of Empiricism and Rationalism?
I'm not sure I understand the tenets of Constructivism to its fullest extent, but it seems like a logical compromise to both ways of…
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