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The 61 pages that link to Empiricism, each with the reason it gives.

• John LockeNarrower topic: Locke made experience, rather than innate ideas, the basis of human understanding.

• David HumeNarrower topic: Hume grounds ideas in experience rather than treating reason as an independent source of factual knowledge.

• Logical positivismNarrower topic: Logical positivism turned empiricism into a program for scientific knowledge.

• Scientific skepticismNarrower topic: Scientific skepticism grounds judgments in observable evidence rather than authority alone.

• Scottish EnlightenmentNarrower topic: Scottish thinkers used observation and experience to investigate mind and society.

• Ernst MachNarrower topic: Mach’s insistence on experience as the test of scientific concepts is a distinctive empiricist program.

• AssociationismNarrower topic: Associationism gives empiricism a mechanism for building complex knowledge from experience.

• Association of IdeasNarrower topic: Hume grounds the materials of thought in experience before explaining their associations.

• Pierre GassendiNarrower topic: Gassendi argued that knowledge begins with sensory experience rather than innate ideas.

• Tabula rasaNarrower topic: Tabula rasa is a prominent claim within empiricist theories of how knowledge begins.

• Moritz SchlickNarrower topic: Schlick’s account of scientific knowledge rests on the evidential authority of experience.

• An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingNarrower topic: Hume’s account is a distinctive, skeptical form of empiricism.

• Novum OrganumNarrower topic: Bacon’s demand for observation and experiment helped strengthen empiricist approaches to natural knowledge.

• An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingNarrower topic: Locke’s account makes experience the source of all ideas.