{"id":241663,"date":"2020-06-08T14:52:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=241663"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:01:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T22:01:40","slug":"what-is-empiricism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/08\/what-is-empiricism\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Empiricism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To be empirical: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153empeiros<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; having experienced or practiced a thing. Thus empiricism is perhaps skepticism<\/a> of knowledge, and using your own real life experiences as a judge and guide of knowledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

There is much we haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t experienced first hand in real life. We watch movies, tv shows, read magazines, watch the news<\/a>, etc. But this is the problem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Society is currently hijacked by a bunch of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153skinny fat<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d nerds, who only have book knowledge, not embodied and experienced knowledge. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n