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Inepistemology,sensualism is a doctrine wherebysensations andperception are the basic and most important form of truecognition. It may oppose abstract ideas.[1]
This ideogenetic question was long ago put forward inGreek philosophy (Stoicism,Epicureanism) and further developed to the full by the British Sensualists (John Locke,David Hume) and theBritish Associationists (Thomas Brown,David Hartley,Joseph Priestley). In the 19th century, it was very much taken up by thePositivists (Auguste Comte,Herbert Spencer,Hippolyte Taine,Émile Littré)[2][3][better source needed]
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