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Empirical
- June 10, 2016
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The English term “empirical” derives from the Greek word ἐμπειρία, which is cognate with and translates to the Latin experientia, from which we derive the word “experience.
Empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience (“if something is not experienced through the emotions or feelings, then it does not exist”).
In this case the existence of the Hebrew God was disqualified because the biblical information lacked a scientific reality in the ideology of the western scientists.
One of several views of epistemology, the study of human knowledge, along with rationalism and skepticism, empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, especially sensory experience, in the formation of ideas, over the notion of innate ideas or traditions; empiricists may argue however that traditions (or customs) arise due to relations of previous sense experiences.
Empiricism in the philosophy of science emphasizes evidence, especially as discovered in experiments. It is a fundamental part of the scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.
A central concept in science and the scientific method is that it must be empirically based on the evidence of the senses. Both natural and social sciences use working hypotheses that are testable by observation and experiment.
Empiricism also established the ideology of refusing and opposing the Hebrew biblical revelation which declares God as the creator of the universe, claiming that the existence of the earth and human life is just production of scientific evolution which derives it’s origin from big bang.