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While the age of enlightenment produced philosophers and others positing a divorce from revealed and divine knowledge, with a focus on human reasoning, two avenues of "knowing about the world" were offered. The first was Rationalismand the second was Empiricism. Propounded by Berkely, Locke and Hume and based upon Aristotlian logic, empiricism demanded 'facts first' and then reasoning, or inductive reasoning about observations, rather than reasoning first and then 'investigation'. ...
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In its strong form, the thesis that there is no knowable reality behind appearances. Thus, it is the job of science to catalog the formal relations which hold between appearances without claims of describing reality. See phenomenalism <Discussion> <References> Chris Eliasmith
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How things are and why are they like that. Eg Differential accumulation is a positive or an empirical framework because it tries to explain how things are, why they are as they are, and who benefits from them being that way.
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The term "empirical" has been used in many different ways. In one use, it is pretty much interchangeable with a posteriori justified (if justified at all). In this course, I use it more narrowly to mean a priori justified on the basis of outer experience. This limitation to outer experience is implicit in accounts of empirical evidence that assume that such evidence is publicly accessible and publicly shareable. ...
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a philosophy that stresses experience as the means of determining truth. The senses are followed more than the mind.
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