Role of senses in the construction of knowledge

Abstract

The rationale of this articulate study is to critically, deeply, and analytically evaluate core phenomena of knowledge creation based on the sensory notions driven by the experience, through a literature review. The study sets Locke’s arguments as a yardstick for comprehensive analysis and drives the rationale of knowledge creation by the knowledge based on the sensory notions. Hence, the study has set strong arguments that all knowledge exclusively is driven through the experience based on the five senses (smell, taste, sound, touch, and sight) as stated by Locke. Following the set arguments of Locke, this study has compared, critiqued, and analyzed the arguments delivered on the knowledge created by other researchers.  Not only has this study compared the arguments of just mentioned philosophers but also, we have compared underlying assumptions and declarations of developed theories such as the theory of realism, rationalism, and empiricism, whereas this article belongs to empiricism. The study, therefore, emphasizes the theory of empiricism and also retaliated critiques the empiricism by the means of solid arguments. However, the findings of this article in the light of a thorough comparative study revealed that apparently, knowledge is not only created by senses only, but also by existing experience in the external world.  

Keywords: Empiricism; Experience; Ideas; Senses; Knowledge; Thoughts.