Nativism Vs. Empiricism
Nativism and empiricism have been researched and debated to find out which one is the basis of research in the development of perception.
Nativists think we are born with all the perceptual abilities needed. This is the favored of the theories on perception. Empiricists debate that we are not born with perceptual abilities but instead that we must learn them.
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“Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations.”
—James Conant (1893–1978)