Paper 1 · Research Aptitude
UGC NET June 2024 Cancelled (18.06.2024) Shift-I
Which of the following approaches to the study of reality suggests that only knowledge gathered through experience and the senses is acceptable?
AConstructionism
BEthnography
CEmpiricism ✓ Correct
DOperationalism
Correct answer: (C) Empiricism — The approach accepting only sense experience is empiricism, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The approach accepting only sense experience is empiricism, so that is the answer.
★Empiricism holds that knowledge comes from experience and observation.
★It accepts only what can be gathered through the senses.
★The word comes from the Greek empeiria, meaning experience.
★So it directly matches the described approach.
★Constructionism, ethnography and operationalism describe other stances, not this one.
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