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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.

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