Sensualism
View in epistemology and cognitive psychology that perceptions underlie all cognition; thinking is recollection, modification, association,and comparison of perceptions
In epistemology, Sensualism is a doctrine whereby sensations and perception are the basic and most important form of true cognition. It may oppose abstract ideas. This ideogenetic question was long ago put forward in Greek philosophy (Stoicism, Epicureanism) and further developed to the full by the British Sensualists (John Locke, David Hume) and the British Associationists (Thomas Brown, David Ha... Wikipedia