• James also criticized rationalism for representing the universe as a closed system, which contrasts with his view that the universe is an open system.[57].
  • Rationalism is the epistemic position that knowledge can be derived through the use of "pure" reason completely detached from any sensory evidence.
  • Rene Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz is considered to be the three great modern rationalists who initiated the idea of rationalism.
  • "Rationalism" is an unfortunately overloaded term. In mainstream analytical history of philosophy, it is often used as a contrast class to "empiricism."
  • Yet, it is clearly a mistake to attribute to them individually, or to rationalism generally, the view that all science proceeds by intuition and demonstration.
  • They can be known only from special revelation. Evaluation. Rationalism as a whole has both positive and negative dimensions for an apologists.
  • In its most general terms, the dispute between rationalism and empiricism has been taken to concern the extent to which we are dependent upon experience in our...
  • Rationalism, in Western philosophy, the view that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge.
  • Rationalism is a broad family of positions in epistemology. Perhaps the best general description of rationalism is the view that there are some distinctive aspects or faculties...
  • Plato’s rationalism proved to be extremely important to medieval Islam, which was an intensely rationalistic religion based on logical deduction.