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How do we come to know? One of the classical answers to this question, empiricism, says that we know to the extent we correctly perceive. This position implies that sensory experience is the only source of human knowledge. Rationalism posits that knowledge comes from the logical consistency of thought, whereas sensory experience cannot provide knowledge. Realism assumes that there is an external world that is independent of our conceiving mind. Idealism, however, accepts only an inner reality.
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Stemmler, G. (1992). Situation and Person. In: Differential Psychophysiology: Persons in Situations. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84655-7_2
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