Sentence:  <WSD>Empiricism</WSD> teaches us that we are unceasingly and intimately in contact with a full, living, breathing Reality, that experience is a constant communion with the real. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses. (Often contrasted with rationalism.)<ref>"Dictionary of Philosophy", Dagobert D. Runes (ed.), Philosophical Library, 1962. "See:" "Empiricism" by Morris T. Keeton, p. 89 which explains 9 philosophical senses of "empiricism."</ref><ref>"The Encyclopedia of Philosophy", Paul Edwards (ed.), Macmillan, 1967. "See:" "Empiricism" by D. W. Hamlyn, vol. 2, pp. 499-505.</ref>