Sejarah aliran Empirisme bermula dari tokoh ahli falsafah British pada abad ke - 18. Menurut salah seorang dari ahli falsafah British tersebut, John Locke, beliau berkata,"Letbus suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes its to be furnished..... to this answered in one word, from experience: in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself".