“Nothing [valid] is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.” –Aristotle/St. Thomas Aquinas.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripatetic_axiom
See also: https://books.google.com/books/about/Metaphysics_Aristotle.html?id=5bsdRyz5nZ4C
This is a basic principle that should shape and inform education and science and all human thought.
This is a basic principle that should shape and inform education and science and all human thought.