1500 | When we sleep, reason closes down as the senses do [Heraclitus, by Sext.Empiricus] |
543 | All men long to understand, as shown by their delight in the senses [Aristotle] |
1822 | Reason can't judge senses, as it is based on them [Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5702 | The senses are much the best way to distinguish true from false [Lucretius] |
5729 | If the senses are deceptive, reason, which rests on them, is even worse [Lucretius] |
16637 | The absolute boundaries of our thought are the ideas we get from senses and the mind [Locke] |
3938 | Geometry is originally perceived by senses, and so is not purely intellectual [Berkeley] |
2183 | We can only invent a golden mountain by combining experiences [Hume] |
2186 | We cannot form the idea of something we haven't experienced [Hume] |
2194 | How could Adam predict he would drown in water or burn in fire? [Hume] |
2702 | Only madmen dispute the authority of experience [Hume] |
2205 | You couldn't reason at all if you lacked experience [Hume] |
2217 | When definitions are pushed to the limit, only experience can make them precise [Hume] |
21285 | Events are baffling before experience, and obvious after experience [Hume] |
6577 | For Kant, our conceptual scheme is disastrous when it reaches beyond experience [Kant, by Fogelin] |
16925 | Appearance gives truth, as long as it is only used within experience [Kant] |
12108 | All real knowledge rests on observed facts [Comte] |
9082 | Clear concepts result from good observation, extensive experience, and accurate memory [Mill] |
5185 | It is further sense-experience which informs us of the mistakes that arise out of sense-experience [Ayer] |
21685 | Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science [Quine] |