What Is Empiricism?

Empiricism is a philosophical doctrine asserting that all knowledge and justification are derived solely from sensory experience. According to strict empiricism, for something to be knowledge or a justified belief, every component must originate from contingent sensory experiences—there are no innate ideas or a priori mental contents existing independent of experience. This approach emphasizes that the senses are the exclusive source of knowledge, and any claim not fully grounded in empirical data is viewed as speculative or invalid. Central to empiricism is the concept of the tabula rasa, or “blank slate,” suggesting that human beings are born without innate knowledge and that all understanding emerges through interaction with the world.

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Also about this video:
when someone says certain structures, like basic reasoning are innate / a priori, could't you respond: yes, but those structures arose from evolutionary processes in which structures that constituated reasoning better responded to the environment - in that sense they arose from a long evolutionary "experience" (not necessarily conscious experience)