TOK Diary 2: Everyone should

be empiricist
Empiricism, in philosophy, is the view that all concepts originate in
experience, that all concepts are about or applicable to things that can be
experienced, or that all rationally acceptable beliefs or propositions are
justifiable or knowable only through experience.
In my opinion, I think this is what science is based on. The difference
between speculation and science, is that science wont agree or disagree
to something until they gather the enough amount of proofs needed in
other to lean to one of those sides. Been an empiricist, means you wont
say something is true or false until you experience it, which can be
through any or your sense. Science is the explanation of theories or
speculations, and if people behave the same way, we would only base our
knowledge in past experiences, not future ones.
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For the counter claim, Ill be using the POV from a

Rationalist.

But as always, there is a counterclaim. We have rationalists claiming that

there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are
gained independently of sense experience.
Rationalists generally develop their view in two ways. First, they argue
that there are cases where the content of our concepts or knowledge
outstrips the information that sense experience can provide. Second, they
construct accounts of how reason in some form or other provides that
additional information about the world.
While being empiricist, we behave like robots, we just know what we can
proof. Whilst being rationalist, we are concluding that senses are a really
important way to gain knowledge, but we as humans, have develop
enough to REASON about things, which can contribute to knowledge BUT
it is never 100% accurate to the real answer.