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empiricism

Immanuel Kant

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rationalism

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scientific method

is the reason why we should think that matter does not exist

's lasting truth is that the bottom of being is left logically opaque to us.

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.

is the idea that nothing is in the understanding that was not earlier in the senses.

Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sens.' In translation this means 'nothing is in the understanding that was not earlier in the senses.' Some Thoughts on Education

is the idea that 'to be is to be perceived.' 'What would a table 'be' if it were not seen, heard, touched, or even tasted or smelt''.

what would a table 'be' if it were not seen, heard, touched, or even tasted or smelt''

is the view that all our knowledge about matters of fact (things which are not required by logical necessity) is derived from experience.

empiricism is the view that all our knowledge about matters of fact (things which are not required by logical necessity) is derived from experience.

is the philosophical concern with the world as it is experienced by an embodied, embedded, and acting agent.

The starting point of James's thought is a deeply (though not exclusively) empirical concern. His work as a whole is founded upon a consideration of concrete experience: the world as experienced by an embodied, embedded, and acting agent. Explicating the lived structures that constitute our uniquely human way of being in the world, James insists, is the key to understanding the antecedent categorizations, conceptualizations, and other intellectual ways of organizing the world that are founded upon these experiential structures, and which emerge through our action within the world.

is the commitment to knowledge, but to the fact that one is not only never, but cannot possibly ever be, sure that one knows, even when one knows.

And so, for James, empiricism is the commitment to knowledge, but to the fact that one is not only never, but cannot possibly ever be, sure that one knows, even when one knows. Before we turn to the treatment of evidence, I must pause to ask whether empiricism, so construed, is much different at all from skepticism. That is ...

 aims at understanding how things are constituted qua things through the integration and assembling of various parts.

For James, empiricism is aiming at understanding how things are constituted qua things through the integration and assembling of various parts... philosophy is therefore what is exploring what is inherently plural and com- posed of many and diverse components. James again contrasts this view against the rationalist.

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