The theory of empiricism is best defined as
A) supporting the idea that all knowledge comes from God, and no experimentation will provide knowledge that was not already present.
B) the view that all knowledge comes from experience acquired through the senses, as opposed to being inborn, or revealed by God, or derived from self-evident principles.
C) supporting the theory that knowledge pre-exists within oneself at birth and must be extracted as the mind develops.
D) everything must be learned through the process of experimentation.
E) All of these
B
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