Empiricism
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Locke's Empiricism
In 19 58, in watt published a very influential book called the rise of the novel. And he argues that lock in empiricism is one of the things that gives us realism. Now he's been criticised because it's not obvious how this general world of philosophy finds its way into prose fiction. Some peope say it must be by process of osmo, a sort of mocking lock's thesis. But certainly, if you find an early novelist like defot robinson crusoe is full of experience,. In a man writing a journal, saying, i felt this. I'm recording it. Here. Can i come back a little bit more?
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