ACS 300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Natural Disaster, Deductive Reasoning
17 Oct 2016
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Tenants of rationalism: rationalism is a philosophical movement which gathered momentum during the age of reason in the 17th century. It is usually associated with the introduction of mathematical methods into philosophy during this period by major rationalist figures such as. Rationalism is any view appealing to intellectual and deductive reasoning as a source of knowledge or justification. It holds that some propositions are knowable by us by intuition alone, while others are knowable be being deduced through valid arguments from intuited propositions. It relies on the idea that reality has some rational structure in that all aspects of it can be grasped through mathematical and logical principles, and not simply through sensory experiences. Tenants of empiricism: empiricism is a practical philosophy movement which grew up, largely in britain, during the age of reason and age of enlightenment in the 17th and 18th century. Major figures in this movement include locke and hume.
