Events Tagged: "empiricism"

4 events with tag "empiricism"

1620 ID: 2208
Francis Bacon's Novum Organum - empirical method influences legal proof and fact-finding
ID: 2208
1689 ID: 3434
John Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' - mind as blank slate - 'No innate principles in the mind' - 'Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu'
ID: 3434
1739 ID: 510
David Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature' destroys rational foundation: 'Reason is slave of passions'
ID: 510
1748 ID: 531
Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' - miracles impossible, 'commit it to the flames'
ID: 531