Empiricism
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Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that asserts that knowledge arises from sense experience.
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- The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply come upon and find, and about which (if we wish to act) we should pause and wonder as little as possible. In this confession lies the lasting truth of empiricism.
- William James, Collected Essays and Reviews (New York, 1920), p. 128