An empiricist believes that the only source of knowledge about the external world is
A) logic.
B) intuition.
C) reason.
D) sensory experience.

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Empiricists believe that knowledge arises primarily from sensory experience, and that the mind is a blank slate (or "tabula rasa") at birth, which is then filled with knowledge through experience. Therefore, sensory experience is seen as the best or only source of knowledge about the external world for an empiricist.

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