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What is empiricism?

A. The use of logic and reasoning to answer religious questions.
B. The way of looking at the world that valued humans over religion.
C. The idea that all knowledge is derived from observation of the five senses.
D. The theory that the earth is at the center of the universe.

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C. The idea that all knowledge is derived from observation of the five senses.

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noun PHILOSOPHY

the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume

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