ATS1297 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Empiricism, Dawning Information Industry, Logical Positivism
31 Jul 2018
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Writing has to be reliable (trust what they"re doing to a large degree) Brick et al. are referring to writing that is free from bias/ is impartial rather than perception/perspectives. Prior to the 17th century knowledge was based largely on authority, especially the authority of the philosopher aristotle and the authority of the bible. It was only when this authority was challenged by an appeal to experience, by pioneers of the new science such as galileo, that modern science became possible. Two schools of thought that attempt to formalise (cid:858)a common view of science(cid:859) that scientific knowledge is derived from the fact: empiricists. The british empiricists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (e. g. locke, berkeley, Hume) held that all knowledge should be derived from ideas implanted in the mind by way of sense perception. Somewhat broader and less psychologically-oriented view of what facts amount to.
