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Rationalism vs Empiricism - Coggle Diagram
Rationalism vs Empiricism
Debate about empiricism and rationalism
Empiricism
Experience alone
Sense experience
Reflective experience
Experience is our only source of ideas
Knowledge can only be gained by experience
Rationalism
Concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience
Develop their view in two steps
Construct accounts of how reason
Content of our concepts or knowledge outstrips the information that sense experience can provide
Main Idea
The extent to which we are dependet upon experience in our effort to gain knowledge of the external world
Empiricism
Principal ideas
Reject the innate knowledge and innate concept theses
Principal authors
Locke
Reid
Hume
Rationalism
Main ideas
Knowledge that is independent, for its justification, of experience
Some propositions in a particular subject area, S, are knowable by us by intuition alone
Principal authors
Descartes
Plato
Leibniz
Rason
Intutition and deduction
Type of knowledge: Priori
Intutition is a form of direct, immediate insight
Deduction is a process that we derive conclusions from intuited premises