Rationalismvsempiricism

//**Rationalism**// Focus: -anything that appeals to reason is a source of knowledge or justification -criteria of truth is not "sensory" but "intellectual" and "deductive"

Event Influences: -the introduction of mathematical methods into philosophy -texts of Eleatics, Pythagoreans, and Plato -epistemological and metaphysical problems raised by Descartes

Previous Movement Influences: -Continental Rationalism (mathematical influence) -neoplatonism -idealism

Philosophers: -**Descartes** -**Gottfried Leibniz** -**Baruch Spinoza**

//**Empiricism**// Focus: -all ideas come to us through experience, either through the senses or through sensations, such as pain and pleasure -knowledge based on or derived from experience

Event Influences -British Philosophy -social preference

Previous Movement Influences: -Rationalism -continental rationalism

Philosophers: -**Descartes** -**Gottfried Leibniz** -**Baruch Spinoza**

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