Empiricism

Empiricism (greek εμπειρισμός, from empirical, latin experientia - the experience), is the philosophical doctrine that all human knowledge comes at first from senses and experience. Empiricism denies that humans have innate ideas or that anything is knowable prior to any experience.

See also

• continental rationalism
• (modern) rationalism
• philosophy of science
• behaviorism
• Philosophical naturalism
• Methodological naturalism
• instrumentalism
• objectivism
• logical positivism
• empirical formula
• empirical knowledge
• empirical method
• empirical relationship
• empirical research
• empirical validation
• quasi-empirical methods