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 ====Empiricism====
-|  What it is  | The idea that all knowledge comes from experience -- the senses.   |
+|  What it is  | The idea that all knowledge comes from experience -- the senses. \\ In AI it also means that this experience comes from the physical world, through physical sensors.    |
 |  Why it matters  | Before the emphasis on empirical knowledge, science did not have a chance to rise in any obvious way above "other sources of knowledge," including old scriptures, intuition, religious beliefs, or information produced by oracles.  |
 |  Empiricism & Science  | The fundamental source of information in (empirical, i.e. experimental) science is experience, which eventually became the formalized **comparative experiment**.   |