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Empiricism
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Empiricism holds that all substantive knowledge of reality derives from sense experience—reason alone only unpacks what experience supplies.
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Hume pushed the tradition hardest: even cause and effect, he argued, we learn only from repeated experience.
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Empiricists still use logic and mathematics—the dispute is over knowledge of the world.