Sensationalism
Related Category: Philosophy, Terms and Concepts
in philosophy, the theory that there are no innate ideas and that knowledge is derived solely from the sense data of experience. The idea was discussed by Greek philosophers and is shown variously in the works of Thomas
Hobbes, John
Locke, George
Berkeley, David
Hume, Julien de
La Mettrie, Baron d'
Holbach, Claude
Helvétius, Étienne de
Condillac, Ernst
Mach, and others. See also
empiricism.
