| 13257 | The senses are too feeble to determine the truth [Anaxagoras] |
| 23309 | Aristotle's concepts of understanding and explanation mean he is not a pure empiricist [Aristotle, by Frede,M] |
| 1693 | Animals may have some knowledge if they retain perception, but understanding requires reasons to be given [Aristotle] |
| 1860 | Knowledge may be based on senses, but we needn't sense all our knowledge [Aquinas] |
| 24034 | If someone had only seen the basic colours, they could deduce the others from resemblance [Descartes] |
| 6228 | Senses cannot judge one another, so what judges senses cannot be a sense, but must be superior [Cudworth] |
| 2793 | It is unclear how identity, equality, perfection, God, power and cause derive from experience [Locke, by Dancy,J] |
| 5024 | Knowledge doesn't just come from the senses; we know the self, substance, identity, being etc. [Leibniz] |
| 13001 | Our sensation of green is a confused idea, like objects blurred by movement [Leibniz] |
| 3902 | Hume mistakenly lumps sensations and perceptions together as 'impressions' [Scruton on Hume] |
| 23421 | If a person had a gap in their experience of blue shades, they could imaginatively fill it in [Hume] |
| 6182 | Even Hume didn't include mathematics in his empiricism [Hume, by Kant] |
| 5538 | Understanding has no intuitions, and senses no thought, so knowledge needs their unity [Kant] |
| 5559 | Sensations are a posteriori, but that they come in degrees is known a priori [Kant] |
| 7544 | Many people imagine that to experience is to understand [Goethe] |
| 19590 | Empiricists are passive thinkers, given their philosophy by the external world and fate [Novalis] |
| 15622 | Empiricism unknowingly contains and uses a metaphysic, which underlies its categories [Hegel] |
| 15621 | Empiricism of the finite denies the supersensible, and can only think with formal abstraction [Hegel] |
| 15632 | The Humean view stops us thinking about perception, and finding universals and necessities in it [Hegel] |
| 14785 | The world is one of experience, but experiences are always located among our ideas [Peirce] |
| 4532 | We can have two opposite sensations, like hard and soft, at the same time [Nietzsche] |
| 16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
| 16485 | Perception can't prove universal generalisations, so abandon them, or abandon empiricism? [Russell] |
| 21532 | Full empiricism is not tenable, but empirical investigation is always essential [Russell] |
| 6431 | Empiricists seem unclear what they mean by 'experience' [Russell] |
| 5376 | I can know the existence of something with which nobody is acquainted [Russell] |
| 5199 | Empiricism, it is said, cannot account for our knowledge of necessary truths [Ayer] |
| 19488 | The second dogma is linking every statement to some determinate observations [Quine, by Yablo] |
| 8178 | Empirical and a priori knowledge are not distinct, but are extremes of a sliding scale [Dummett] |
| 8255 | Davidson says the world influences us causally; I say it influences us rationally [McDowell on Davidson] |
| 6400 | Without the dualism of scheme and content, not much is left of empiricism [Davidson] |
| 2522 | Experience cannot teach us why maths and logic are necessary [Katz] |
| 8052 | To find empiricism and science in the same culture is surprising, as they are really incompatible [MacIntyre] |
| 8881 | Most of our knowledge has insufficient sensory support [Sosa] |
| 2494 | Rationalists say there is more to a concept than the experience that prompts it [Fodor] |
| 6081 | Necessity and possibility are big threats to the empiricist view of knowledge [McGinn] |
| 10404 | Extreme empiricists can hardly explain anything [Swoyer] |
| 14918 | The doctrine of empiricism does not itself seem to be empirically justified [Ladyman/Ross] |