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Philosophy: Asses Empiricism

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:41:06
Category: / Business & Economy
Length: 1 pages (252 words)
Empiricists believe that all ideas come from experience. Some empiricists even believe there are no innate ideas. That the mind is a blank tablet from birth, waiting to be filled with the knowledge you will gain from your experiences. So, the truths or propositions that make up our knowledge consist of ideas that have come to us exclusively through our senses. However, some empiricists recognise the inner sense e.g. emotions, sensations, feelings and memories, …
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…philosophical scepticism as limiting what the human mind can hope to accomplish and as a guide to those areas of inquiry we can usefully apply our talents towards. So although they may agree it can help us in our eternal quest for knowledge, the view is that it should not be overly used, otherwise it would cause you to be lead into what's known as an 'infinite regress', and only delaying the 'truth' being found.
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