Empiricism Theory Research
Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that uses the statement that experience derived from the senses is the most effective way of acquiring knowledge. Empiricists have always claimed that knowledge cannot be considered as knowledge if it is not based on the individual’s sense experience - sight, hearing, taste, smell, or touch. Rationalism is another theory of knowledge that emphasizes that knowledge can be acquired only by relying on reason, logic and intuition rather than sense experience. Rationalists have claimed that pure reason can help us to obtain real knowledge, independently of our sense experience, and all the knowledge that we possess consists of innate concepts that are somehow generated and certified by reason.
The active mind is always in an activated position and it has the ability to abstract the essence of things from the finished sense image. The passive mind is always waiting to be activated by the abstracted kind of the sensed object, and the active mind is the connecting link that brings the passive mind's possible knowledge of objects to reality.
Empiricist Locke and rationalist Kant both claimed the next: objects exist in the world independently of the perceiver; we can never know the true nature of the objects, only their impact on our senses; our mind plays an important role in organizing our sense data. However, for Kant the objects that exist independently of the perceiver are not similar to the objects of experience, rather something completely extraterrestrial and this distinguishes his view from …
