| Summary: | Many researchers have been thinking on the importance of Epistemology for the Physics understanding, and on its teaching, but the reciprocal is not true. Very few attempts were made concerning the possibility of Physics to contribute for a good understanding of Epistemology. We intend to show how Physics can be useful to arbitrate about an epistemological secular subject concerning the origin of the knowledge: if it is reached by the senses, as it defends the Empiricism, or by reason, as it defends the Rationalism. With some simple examples extracted from Newtonian mechanics, we will show that correlations exist among facts without causality and vice-versa it can exist a hidden causality linking facts without correlations, which weakens the orthodox empiricism position concerning the origin of the knowledge, opening new and strong arguments against a inductive-empiricist teaching, as proposed by some known Physics textbooks.
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