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Almost no philosopher has been a strict, thoroughgoing empiricist i.e., one who holds that literally all knowledge comes from experience.

How can there be knowledge of God, he asks, when all knowledge comes through the senses and God, being immaterial, cannot be sensed?

Rationalism has long been the rival of empiricism, the doctrine that all knowledge comes from, and must be tested by, sense experience.

Unenlightened by Christian revelation, Aristotle mistook humankind's present fallen state, in which all knowledge comes through the senses, for its natural condition, in which the object of knowledge would be coextensive with all being, including the being of God.

In fact, for Desgabets, since all knowledge comes from the senses, the function of knowing the essences of things is a necessary role served by the senses.

Further building on the insistence that all knowledge comes from the senses, Gassendi discusses the view (shared as well by Descartes and the Aristotelians) that there are propositions we can know with certainty.

Helmholtz opposed this view by insisting that all knowledge came through the senses.

Phenomenalism held that all our knowledge comes from our sense impressions: we can know only sense data, i.e. the deliverances of perceptual experience.

The saxophonist is almost surreal in his inventiveness: where does all this knowledge come from?

Hume was an 18th century philosopher famous for saying that all of our knowledge comes from sense experience.

Microsporidian genomes range in size from 2.3 to 19.5 Mbp, but almost all of our knowledge comes from species that have small genomes (primarily from the human parasite Encephalitozoon cuniculi and the locust parasite Antonospora locustae).