Empiricism, a theory of knowledge that comes primarily from sensory experience, a study of human knowledge which comes with rationalism, idealism, and historicism. Empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, referring to sensory perception, creation of ideas depending on their traditional culture which they sense different due to relations of their previous sense experience.
There are several types of empiricism which are classical, radical and moderate empiricism. Classical Empiricism is a concept written by John Locke that at birth we know nothing, that as we live along we gain information to our mind by our own experience. Radical empiricism is that it holds all our knowledge is gained from our senses meaning that by experience, we confirm that it is real. In a daily real life talk, people usually talk about what they have experienced or else the conversation will turn out to be meaningless, it is impossible to talk about things we had never experienced in life before. Moderate empiricism, which means we do not necessarily use our sense to use or gain our knowledge, referring to the general rule. Examples such as "triangles have three sides" or "100 + 100 = 200" does not necessary have to be investigated in order to find out the answer, it is just a basic knowledge a human has. Some empiricists determine that Moderate empiricism is more reasonable than radical empiricism.
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