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Introducing empiricism /

Our knowledge comes primarily from experience. But is experience really what it seems? Is it reliable? Empiricist philosophers accept a 'commonsense' view of the phenomena we observe and yet conclude that all we can ever know are 'ideas'. Physical reality may not exist at all! Th...

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Main Author: Robinson, Dave
Other Authors: Mayblin, Bill
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Royston : Icon Books, c2004.
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