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Empirical evidence

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knowledge based on sense experience or experimentation

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Knowledge of this kind is called à priori, in contradistinction to empirical knowledge, which has its sources à posteriori, that is, in experience.
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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Yet there are extremely rare and quite isolated exceptions of men who have the heart upon the right side. Sense-perception and empirical science have, therefore, the same kind of evidence. The advantage which mathematics, pure natural science, and logic have over them, as _a priori_ knowledge, rests merely upon this, that the formal element in knowledge upon which all that is _a priori_ is based, is…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
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Instead of this doctrine leading to a low estimate of knowledge, the contrary is the case. This art of experimental thinking turns out to give the key to the control and development of other modes of practice. I have touched elsewhere in these essays upon the way in which knowledge is the instrument of regulation of our human undertakings, and I have also pointed out that intrinsic increments of meaning accrue in…
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
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