Empiricism
EMPIRICISM is best understood not as a single doctrine but as a cluster of theses, each of which affirms the primacy of human experience in the general area of epistemology. As used here, t...
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Empiricism
The theory that all knowledge is acquired through experience.
Empiricism is the theory proposed by philosophers and psychologists that all knowledge and behavior are acquired through experi...
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Basic Statements
Any statement of fact is true or false in virtue of some existing state of affairs in the world. In many cases the truth-value of a statement is determined by appealing to the truth-v...
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Empiricism
Empiricism is the theory that experience rather than reason is the source of knowledge, and in this sense it is opposed to rationalism. This general thesis, however, can receive different e...
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