An epistemological perspective supporting that all knowledge comes from a sense-experience. It rejects the idea that the human mind enters the world with some priori ideas or knowledge that exist independently of personal experience (Reber, 1995). Empiricism developed in the 17th and 18th centuries along with the rise of experimental sciences, and is often aligned with the work of John Locke (1632), George Berkeley (1685 - 1753), and David Hume (1711 - 1776).
References:
Reber , A.S. (1995). The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology. New York: Penguin Books