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This 4 page paper examines Locke's work and provides a discussion on empiricism and its limits. Various concepts in the writing are defined and discussed as well. No additional sources cited.
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is through experiencing something over and over again that one can come to a conclusion where they are knowledgeable about a subject. A psychiatrist with 30 years experience will have
a better understanding of the profession than a recent graduate in psychology. It is not his age, but experience in the profession that renders him more knowledgeable about psychiatric conditions.
While experiential knowledge may be separated from belief or book knowledge in that way, the definition of knowledge remains ambiguous. It is hard to discern what knowledge
is exactly and whether knowledge is experienced or intrinsic. Is there a collective consciousness or is everything learned independently? Is everything experienced the truth, or is it just a subjective
encounter? Philosophers do disagree on concepts regarding knowledge. John Locke believes that all knowledge comes from the senses and so he is an empiricist. Hence, he does not subscribe
to the notion that senses fail. Rather, sensory stimulation is equated with the essence of knowledge. John Locke sees experiential evidence as something that is equated with two forms
of observations and in one case, an individual would rely on internal thoughts and ideas and on the other hand, an individual will experience touch, smell, taste and so forth,
the latter of which is difficult to relay. In other words, how can one provide another with a description of the color red? In fact, this is something so ingrained
in experience that if a human being looks at a yellow box that says red, it will be hard for him to reconcile the two. Tricksters and gamers of the
twenty-first century like to have fun with such mind problems, but this was really Lockes early observation in terms of dividing the two. More appropriately, how can one understand
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