What does empiricism claim?
Answer: Sensory experience is the only true source of knowledge and truth. The only things that are knowable are knowable based off of experience/ experiment, so there is no way to know with certainty whether God exists.
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History Trimester
- What were the three main areas of discontent that led to the French Revolution?
- What overriding factor led to the French Revolution?
- What were the strengths and weaknesses of 18th century France?
- Who was Rousseau?
- Who was Diderot?
- Who was Voltaire?
- What did Enlightenment philosophers reject and what did they embrace instead?
- What does rationalism claim?
- What did philosophers of the Enlightenment seek to do and by what means?
- Which previous time period did Enlightenment thinkers look back on to form the idea that man was the measure of all things?
- What is the Enlightenment referred to as?
- What is the timeline of powers shifts following the English Civil War?
- What is the difference between leadership by the people and leadership by a monarch in wartime?
- What led to the English Civil War?