empiricism

gestalt

phenomenology

is concerned with wanting to know what is the most basic kind of evidence which justifies us in claiming to know certain things about the world.

First of all, empiricist are concerned above all with the theory of knowledge, or epistemology: they want to know what is the most basic kind of evidence which justifies us in claiming to know certain things about the world. (Matthews 22: 2006)

is the idea that perceptions are not atomistic sensations, but structured wholes in which the meaning of individual elements depended on their relation to the whole.

our perceptions were not, according to them, broken up into atomistic units called 'sensations', but were structured wholes in which the meaning of individual elements depended on their relation to the whole. (matthews 2006:)

is a methodological conception, a way of inquiring into objects, not something to be defined in terms of the kind of objects investigated.

a 'methodological conception' (Heidegger 1962: 50), a way of inquiring into objects, not something to be defined in terms of the kind of objects investigated. (Matthews).

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