The Skeptics of Ancient Greece upheld the primacy of...

The Skeptics of Ancient Greece upheld the primacy of experience and opposed rational philosophy. The new form of empiricism can be traced to the 17th century. Scholars and philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes,[^12] Pierre Gassendi[^13] and David Hume[^14] were among the prominent proponents of sensualism.

The notion that sensory perception is the fountainhead and criterion for knowledge has been the ultimate product of their intellectual activity.[^15] Since perception and sensory experience are only through the five senses, the existence and Attributes of God cannot be proved or disproved on the basis of the foundations of sensualism. As such, they oppose both the theists and materialists, because according to them, there is no way of proving or disproving for mankind the metaphysical world.

Assessment Sensory empiricism (primacy of the sensory perception) is unacceptable because there is a set of epistemological concepts and principles which cannot be understood by sensory perception and at the same time, they cannot be denied; that is, without them, sensory perceptions are also…