Empiricism

I do agree with the Empiricists claim that all of our knowledge relies on our senses.  The basic claim is that the only source of genuine knowledge is sense experience. I agree with this and I believe I can given example that would back up this claim.
Example: Lets say it is morning and I am trying to decide what I should wear based upon the temperature outside. I check the weather and it shows that it is supposed to be 30 degrees outside. Then I decide to open my window. It is dark out, the trees are blowing in the wind, (sure looks cold). I decide to ask my roommate ( he says it "seems" pretty cold out). Do I have any genuine knowledge yet? I don't think so. So I head outside. Sure enough it is cold out! To me, until this moment when my senses experience the bitter biting wind and my nose begins to run and my ears begin to burn I have not had any genuine knowledge. I rely on my sense experience on an everyday basis to give me knowledge about my surroundings. I could have reasonable estimated that it was warm outside based upon the weather channel, my view from my window, and my roommates remarks, however as you stated in the lecture, "Reason is an unreliable and inadequate route to knowledge unless grounded in sense experience."