Rationalism

Date July 5, 2009

[rash-uh-nuh-liz’-um]

(Latin rationalis, “reason”)

The theory of epistemology (the study of knowledge) which limits the study of knowledge to that which is intuitively known without regard to experience (contra empiricism). Rene Descartes is often referred to as the father of rationalism, believing that all knowledge must be justified by innate intellectual deduction.

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