Idea

Empiricism

All knowledge comes from experience. The mind begins blank. Bacon, Locke, and their heirs built modern science on this foundation.

Thinkers Who Shaped This Idea

Medieval Europe· 354–1349 CE

Roger Bacon

c. 1219 CE – c. 1292 CE

Early Modern· 1561–1716 CE

Francis Bacon

1561 CE – 1626 CE

John Locke

1632 CE – 1704 CE

George Berkeley

1685 CE – 1753 CE