Which of the following approaches to the study of reality suggests that only knowledge gathered through experience and the senses is acceptable?

Empiricism holds that only knowledge gathered through experience and the senses is acceptable.

It grounds valid knowledge in direct observation rather than pure reasoning.

Constructionism sees social reality as produced through human interaction.

Ethnography is a qualitative field method of immersive study, not a theory of knowledge.

Operationalism defines concepts strictly by the operations used to measure them.

Empiricism underpins the positivist stance in the social sciences.