The empricist believes that
A) the only source of genuine knowledge is sense experience.
B) apart from experience, reason is an unreliable and inadequate route to knowledge.
C) there is no evidence of innate ideas within the mind.
D) all of these choices

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Empiricists believe that the only source of genuine knowledge is sense experience (A), and that apart from experience, reason is an unreliable and inadequate route to knowledge (B). They also reject the notion of innate ideas and argue that the mind is initially like a blank slate or tabula rasa, which is gradually filled with ideas and knowledge from experience (C). Therefore, all of these choices are correct.

The Empricist Believes That