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    validation of the work. This, I suggest, is achieved through the documentation of the scientific process via specific techniques that serve to create both a simulated direct observation and a perceived replicability. Logical positivism, as a form of empiricism, links the validity of a scientific finding with direct experience by asserting that “experience is the only source of meaning, as well as the only source of knowledge” (Godfrey-Smith, 2003, p. 27) and therefore the only means of verification of

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    that humans do gain knowledge and form different kinds of ideas through our senses and different experiences. The reoccurring theme with John Locke’s theory on modern science is the idea of the senses and how knowledge is made through sense data. Empiricism is the notion that all knowledge comes from sense experience. We, as conscious individuals, do not know anything until we experience it with our own senses, which then our senses shape our mind on how we view and understand a certain object as well

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    Dewey was influenced by both Darwin and Hegel, and his philosophical beliefs reflect this influence. He focuses a great deal on experience, which already points his beliefs in the direction of empiricism. He speaks of experience in terms of what is experimental, active, and forward-looking, which appears to be a combination of empirical and pragmatic beliefs. Like his fellow pragmatic philosophers, he is concerned with the future, and how it will

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    Marxist perspectives central aims are to provide an empirically well-founded description of phenomenon, to get the social implications; and to illuminate the historical process through which this phenomenon came to exist in the real world. Additionally, its aims at comprehend and explain reality using s themes analysis and this is confirmed by research. This has methods such as phenomenology and Ethnography. Positivism is based on a notion that science is an only way to learn about the truth and

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    PSYCHOLOGY Psychology is defined as the study of thought and behavior. A substantial amount of people believes that psychology is not a specific scientific discipline. Social sciences study humans as individuals or as groups. The scientific method subsists of five processes, which include observation, prediction, testing, interpretation, and communication. Ernst Weber was born 1795 and died 1878, was one of the first developers who planned an approach and prepared for what was accepted in

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    Universal Perfect Doesn’t Exist: Genuine Knowledge Means Shift It has been many years, the foundation of all genuine knowledge, whether they are found on experience (empiricism) or they could simply gain from pure reasoning (rationalism) has been the subject of academic debate among scholars. However, we will only focus on the limitation of pure reasoning, compare both David Hume and Rene Descartes’ views of knowledge, and decide whose belief works better to attain genuine knowledge in this paper

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    understood to be the major thesis of Logical Positivism (Macdonald). In order to understand the Verification Principle, one must first become somewhat familiar with Logical Positivism. Logical Positivism is a school of philosophic thought that combines empiricism, the idea that observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge of the world, with a version of rationalism incorporating mathematical and logico-linguistic constructs and deductions in epistemology, the study of knowledge (Log Pos). The

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    methods in which information is learned. Of these methods, there are two that are most widely accepted. Rationalism and empiricism are also the most widely debated methods of knowledge. Rationalism claims that a priori processes and intuition gain knowledge. Rationalism claims that knowledge is innate; but that it varies among humans. At the other end of the spectrum, empiricism claims that knowledge is gained largely by experience, observation, and sensory perception. René Descartes and John Locke

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    less save fallen individuals. Concerning this modern religious movement Henry writes, “God’s place as the ultimate principle of theology or central datum of religion in now taken by human religious experience.” The amalgamation of naturalistic empiricism, classical liberalism, and Moral Therapeutic Deism births the prevalent mindset of the secular society today. Although they promise much, none of these ideologies can supply a consistent model

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    Who Are Empiricists?

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    only infer that we have an identity. The big problem is that empiricists believe that we can prove everything through experience. However, whose experience of senses should I take as evidence for my identity? Mine or how other people experience me? Empiricism has the fundamental issue of contradicting experiences resulting in some questions left

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