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? empiricists thought that genuine knowledge comes from experience which means It only can be explained by the latter experience. And our minds are blank at birth therefore, we do not certain about anything until we are filled up with sensory experience. And Logical or rational experience such as law or mathematics can reduce the sensory experience. well, I think empiricism has affected on our society now. For example, we only choose whether we will continue to study about math and science when we reach at some point of our education. that could mean it is not essential to achieve in some areas of study that's our educational system now in general. However, Empiricism, it was found when there was many observation and scientifical experiments. In addition, Kant also agrees to the empiricists at some point that an intuition is anything present to the senses. so I think there must be some parts that can be shared between the experiences both from sense and logic just like empiricists and kant. so I don't think there won't be any types of knowledge that can be a 'problem' to fulfill those which empiricists claimed. In other words, what I think is they can coexist and reflect each other. |
Sunday, September 25, 2011
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Hume would say that an empiricist account of math and scientific knowledge would leave us in the predicament of skepticism. Keep up the good work on your blog
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