Empiricism and its problems (made simple) essays

Empiricism is a belief that all knowledge comes from experience. For example, you know how to play video games right? When do you know? How do you know? You born and started seeing the objects in the world and the objects became familiar to you when you see it again and again. That means, we born we do not know anything, we just born with empty mind like blank slate; then, we started experiencing the world through our senses,i. e. eyes, nose, ears; so, we gained the knowledge by experiencing the objects through our senses.

For example, you know all different colors, how do you know? by seeing isn`t it?. you can show me which one is yellow color, that means, you have got an idea of yellow color by experiencing through your eyes. This is called simple idea. Many simple ideas will form a complex idea in our mind is called substance. For example

When you see a chicken nugget, you are seeing the color by your eyes, you can feel the soft by touching, you can smell it and you can taste it. So all these four simple ideas are forming a complex idea of chicken nugget in your mind. That means we are receiving only simple ideas from the world through our senses(e.g. color, taste, smell etc..), only substance which exist only in our mind is putting all simple ideas together to give a complex idea of chicken nugget. But something I am not seeing but I have an idea of those. What is that? For example, you are at school, your dad and mom at office, but you know that your house is existing even though you did not see it, this is called substance. There are lots of stuff in the world, even though you do not see them you have a strong belief that those are existing. This substance we are not experiencing from senses, but we know, this is the problem with empiricism. ...