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In its naive form, the belief that one can examine "the facts" without any beliefs or assumptions at all to guide the examination and a hypothesis will emerge. In most cases it appears that scientists begin with a theory, test it empirically, find it wanting, and move toward new theory.
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The permanent strand in philosophy that attempts to tie knowledge to experience. [Often contrasted with rationalism.]
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The view that knowledge is gained primarily or entirely through the five senses. Empiricists thus emphasize the importance of observation and "fact gathering." Since neither God nor the soul could be observed by the use of the five senses, a strict empiricist would have to deny that we can have knowledge of such things.
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The view that experience, especially of the senses, is the only source of knowledge.
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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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