ABSTRACT
According to Locke, this outer experience (sensation) is 1 Translator's note: Cognition (Ger. Erkenntnis), act or faculty ofknowing or
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paralleledbyaninnerone,obtainedthroughtheinwardsense (reflection).Theunderstandingworksovertheseimpressions acquiredthroughthesenses,compares,differentiates,combines. Accordingtothisconception,theworldreallyisasitappearsto usthroughoursensesorourexperience.Thisphilosophical direction,representingthethesisthatallourcognitionproceeds fromthefunctioningofoursensesand,hence,fromexperience, iscalledSensationalismorEmpiricism.JohnLockeisthefatherof Empiricism.1
