LOGICAL EMPIRICISM
Empiricism is a philosophical theory that argues that human knowledge is derived entirely from sensory experience. The philosophy of empiricism was first introduced in an essay on human understanding by John Locke. Locke argued that man was the only systematic experience in which knowledge could be obtained. Locke strongly argued that people do not have the ability to formulate or obtain inherent ideas. In empiricism there was a general concern about scientific methodology and a special study of the important role that science could play in reshaping society. In that scientific methodology, rational empiricists wanted to find a natural and important role for logic and mathematics and to gain an understanding of the philosophy that was part of the scientific enterprise. Empiricism ignores the concept of innate ideas and focuses entirely on experience and evidence as it relates to sensory cognition. Empiricism is a philosophical belief that your knowledge of the world is based