8. Empiricism

Francis Bacon, the Father of Emperism.

Empiricism is a school of thought which asserts that knowledge comes only or primarily via sensory experience.

This is a seventeenth century British philosophy. It states that all knowledge is derived from sensory organs, by experience, observations and experimenting.

Empiricism emphasises the role of experience, evidence and sensory perception in the formation of ideas, over the notion of innate ideas and tradition.

Empiricism emphasises on evidence, especially as discovered experimentally. It is a fundamental part of the scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world rather than resting on reasoning, intuition and revelation

Francis Bacon, John Locke and David Hume were some of the Philosophers associated with empiricism

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