Empiricism...

What do you make of empiricism's claim that all of our knowledge is based on the use of our senses? What areas of knowledge do you think support this theory? Are there any types of knowledge (mathematical knowledge, for example?) that you think are a problem for this theory?

The view that experience, especially of the senses, is the only source of knowledge.

Empiricism, an oppsoing theory to rationalism. Senses can't support our knowledge, awareness in the kind of forms is a sturcture of a true knowledge. Commonsense on the other hand, can view senses to provide us knowledge, this however is adopted in some sort of empiricist view.

This theory would be claimed that our source of knowledge is based on experience. One reason might be that every proposition that we know is either a direct report on experience or a report whose truth is inferred from experience. A second reason for maintaining that all knowledge is dependent on experience would be that we can have no ideas or concepts which are not derived from experience. Mathematics for example, the truth in their area of knowledge are independently from experience. I have read it somewhere that in an unarguable statement that, mathematics ability is to yield important knowledge  about the world. I know math is frustrating sometimes but the for someone to have the knowledge of doing such problems, hands down.

Their are areas or types of knowledge, priori which is obtained without the need of observing the world. And posteriori or what they called the empirical knowledge which is obtained after observing the world or interacting with it in some way.

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