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Did You Know After 100,000 Years Ago Europe primate-hominds went Viral, but the Hybrid People went Virus.
The cause of backcrossing-introgression-miscegenation leaves mental retardation lasting forever.
IMPIRICALISM: Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.
"they provided considerable empirical evidence to support their argument.
Publisher Summary
Mental retardation is a thinking disorder. This chapter provides evidence in favor of the position and against the position that mental retardation is a learning disorder. The chapter focuses on empiricism's influence on mental retardation research, particularly in the United States. Research in mental retardation has been dominated by the philosophy of Lockian empiricism with its emphasis on associative learning and sensory experience as the source of cognition and intellect. The field continues to be dominated by this philosophy despite persuasive evidence that it does not accurately represent the origins of intelligence. The alternative philosophy of Cartesian rationalism argues for the innateness of the principles of mental operations and places the source of deficient knowledge acquisition on an individual's limited capacity for understanding, thereby directing the attention to thinking processes that unfold during maturation.
*Internation Review of Reserch in Mental Retardation*
Volume 15, 1988, Pages 1-32
Mental Retardation as a Thinking Disorder: The Rationalist Alternative to Empiricism