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The radical idea that reality answers questions better than the guy with the loudest opinion.
means The philosophical stance that knowledge comes primarily from sensory experience and evidence rather than pure reasoning.
from From Greek empeiria, experience, via the empirikoi: ancient physicians who trusted observation over fashionable medical theory.
Rival campRationalists insisted reason alone reveals truth.
Big threeLocke, Berkeley, Hume built the British wing.
Blank slateLocke called the newborn mind tabula rasa.
Science engineUnderpins the entire experimental method today.