What do you make of empiricism's claim that all of our knowledge is based on the use of our senses? What areas of knowledge do you think support this theory? Are there any types of knowledge (mathematical knowledge, for example?) that you think are a problem for this theory?
I do believe he didn't really have any base to make this belief 100%. Granted yes you learn most of the things that you know today through experience and through making mistakes. But a lot of how we have gotten here and what we are truly made of is learned through books and through people telling us.
Like the story of the chicken, we don't know if the chicken will be fed the next morning like its routine. Or if the sun will rise in the morning. Everything is based on the now, there is so much we can learn from books, which make it necessary to know the basic, but everything else must come from experience.
Knowledge gained through books may also be based on the senses IF it is justified via the senses.
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