Empiricism

In philosophy, empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience. It is one of several views of epistemology, the study of human knowledge, along with rationalism and skepticism. Empiricism emphasises the role of empirical evidence in the formation of ideas, rather than innate ideas or traditions. However, empiricists may argue that traditions (or customs) arise due to relations of previous sense experiences.

Empiricism in the philosophy of science emphasises evidence, especially as discovered in experiments. It is a fundamental part of the scient
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
A Treatise of Human Nature
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh (Hackett Classics)
Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
The Essays
Leviathan
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
The New Organon
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Two Treatises of Government
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Hackett Classics)
Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

Ernst Cassirer
...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the same for all living beings. Reality is not a unique and homogeneous thing; it is immensely diversified, having as many different schemes and patterns as there are different organisms. Every organism is, so to speak, a monadic being. It has a world of its own because it has an experience of its own. The phenomena that we find in the life of a certain biological species are not tran ...more
Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

Sol Luckman
Atoms, the building blocks of so-called matter, however much they might seem to be physically circumscribed, aren’t actually like tiny billiard balls. That’s kindergarten science. From a shamanic or alchemical perspective, atoms are more like sentient waves, their intelligently responsive existence a blur of potential until they magically appear to materialize.
Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

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