Empiricism
Inphilosophy,empiricismis a theory that states that allknowledgecomes fromexperience.
'Experience' is sometimes translated as 'sense data', i.e. we cannot know anything except byinformationwhich comes through oursenses.
The British philosophersJohn Locke,George BerkeleyandDavid Hume,clarified some of its basic ideas in the 17th and 18th century, building on the ideas of classical philosopherAristotle.
Empiricism is one of several competing views about how we know things, part of the branch of philosophy calledepistemology,or "study of knowledge".Materialismandphysicalismshare some of attitudes of empiricism.
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