^مُعرِّف موسوعة بريتانيكا على الإنترنت (EBID): topic/empiricism. الاقتباس: History of empiricism / Contemporary philosophy / Later developments [...] In contrast, adherents of a contemporary school of epistemology known as “externalism” have argued that sensations (and other mental states) can play a role in justifying what humans think they know, even though the vast majority of humans are unaware of what that role is..