Acrostics for Ascetics - IV

Empiricists were the hardest for me to understand, and even harder to acrosticise (is that a word? well, now it is). Much as I dislike them personally, it's not for an imbecile like me to deny their contribution to the subject, which was immense. If we discount their near-dogmatic over-emphasis on perception, they were some of the smartest people to focus their energies on the truth behind matter and mind.

Locke the loquacious
Just what exactly does the French fool mean by innate?
Of course we're born with instincts, but knowledge we create
How can we escape experience when it's all we know?
Nascent ideas are like footprints etched in white snow

Look here, matter may be something, but I know not what
Only through intuition can the self ever be caught
Certainty of experience is stuff of futile daydreams
Knowledge is always less certain than it first seems
Even my worst detractors follow most of my scheme

Berkeley the believer
Being is being experienced, this you better believe
Each of us is the owner of what we perceive
Remember, what you know not doesn't really exist
Knowledge is only of that which in senses persists
External world of course is not created by you
Let not solipsistic thoughts colour your view
Everything external is perceived by God's own mind
Yahweh gives you senses, you just make them refined

Hume the heuristic
Don't you look at me like I'm Satan's own minion
Allow me to peel for you reality's unreal onion
Verily, you will soon realize there's no soul to be saved
In every moment lie the things that you're forced to crave
Deities and demons disappear when you learn to behave

Ha! What's all this fuss about cause and effect?
Understand there's no such thing as necessary connect
Matter or soul, both are not axioms but sophistry
Experience tells me what is, never what ought to be