What is anthropological empiricism?

Answer 1

Concept empiricism states that all ideas come from experience. This experience could be direct (sensation) or indirect (reflection or introspection). john Locke, the leading British Empiricist in the 1700's, sates that these concepts are the material of knowledge.

Locke believes in two kinds of ideas: simple and complex. Simple ideas (shape, color, size) can be known directly through experience. Other more complex ideas (apples, murder, economics...etc) can be indirectly derived from simple ideas and therefore these complex ideas are indirectly derived from experience. Concept Empiricism, therefore, is committed to concept reductionism that sates that all concepts can be reduced to simple (basic) concepts.

Answer 2

Ontological Empiricism is the belief that all knowledge comes from the senses, or "Experience" in a metaphysical (which is sort of like.... "Thinking about thinking") manner. Ontology is the study of "being" or "existence" and Empiricism is the concept that all things are derived from the senses.

Answer 3

The view that experience especially of the senses is the only source of knowledge.

Answer 4

it is the average number of spider legs found in a candy bar multiplied by the naturally occurring ratio between leprechauns and unicorns in Sherwood forest

Answer 5

The gathering of knowledge though attentiveness and experience

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