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Rationalism Vs Empiricism

Date Submitted: 06/10/2002 14:52:43
Length: 9 pages (2472 words)
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In this paper I will discuss the similarities and differences between Rene Descartes and John Locke, David Hume and Plato. They believe in rationalism or empiricism respectively. Rationalist believed that an important group of fundamental concepts are known intuitively through reason, opposite to experience. For rationalist, the knowledge is innate and that it can¡¯t come from sources such as the senses. They are well known as Descartes, Plato. …

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…by the god. I also believe that experience give our knowledge. We don¡¯t anything when we were born. We gain different knowledge through the learning and perceptions. The experiences do give our knowledge but not like the innate knowledge which gives by god can never be false. So, I think that we without the innate ideas we can¡¯t gain other knowledge.

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