philosophy
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In response to your point about John Locke, often called the founder of British Empiricism, while Empiricism has both strengths and weaknesses it could be challenged, in so far as It is difficult to claim that what we experience through our senses is the fundamental root of all our perceptions and understanding.. One factor is that Empiricism relies heavily on the senses for attaining truths. The senses are not always functioning perfectly, surely injury to the brain or alcohol could alter their validity and lead to a distortion of the truth. A second argument against Empiricism is that the truths arriving need to be organized and not disconnected. It is difficult to ascertain how this organization can occur.
Traditional empiricist methods need to be supplemented by extra-logical principals that are not strictly empirical.[1] Empiricism cannot provide us with the certa
In response to your point about John Locke, often called the founder of British Empiricism, while Empiricism has both strengths and weaknesses it could be challenged, in so far as It is difficult to claim that what we experience through our senses is the fundamental root of all our perceptions and understanding.. One factor is that Empiricism relies heavily on the senses for attaining truths. The senses are not always functioning perfectly, surely injury to the brain or alcohol could alter their validity and lead to a distortion of the truth. A second argument against Empiricism is that the truths arriving need to be organized and not disconnected. It is difficult to ascertain how this organization can occur.
Traditional empiricist methods need to be supplemented by extra-logical principals that are not strictly empirical.[1] Empiricism cannot provide us with the certa