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Rationalism vs. empircism Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:45:51 2017 No.10436555 [View]
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"Rationalists" are far from rational: ridiculous claims founded on innate ideas. Baseless speculation about reality usually with some quasi-religious undertones (Decartes, Leibniz).

So, why were they so prominent in philosophy and why do their ideas still have any merit? By the time Locke started publishing his work, that should've been the end of rationalism as a whole.

Even something seemingly independent of experience that could resemble a synthetic judgement (mathematics) is stupid because closed systems such as those do not tell us anything about reality.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 12 12:17:00 2017 No.9882996 [View] File: 300 KB, 1200x1200, john-locke-9384544-1-402.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"just be free!" >ends history

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