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Describe and assess Locke, Berkeley and Hume’s empiricist approach to knowledge and the conclusions they reach
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Describe and assess Locke, Berkeley and Hume's empiricist approach to knowledge and the conclusions they reach Empiricist philosophy arose out of doubts towards rationalism, in an attempt to search for a theory of knowledge that would be consistent with ordinary human behaviour. Instead of seeking absolutely certain knowledge about an alleged real world, empiricists have tried to discover where we get our information from and what degree of reliability it actually possesses. Rather than rejecting sensory data in favour of some completely certain knowledge about a non-visible realm, these philosophers have begun with our sense experience as the source and basis of what we know, and have tried to construct an account of knowledge in terms of a posteriori evidence. Empiricism has been the major mover in Western philosophy, and its most influential peak came around the 17th and 18th centaury; a time when Locke, Berkeley and Hume,...
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