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Criticisms of Rationalism
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Necessary Truths: All a priori knowledge, can come from deductive arguments or by definition of the words. Examples: Contingent Truth: Is a truth that could have been otherwise. A posteriori. Examples:
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There are 2 strands of rationalism: 1: Innate knowledge 2: The ability to reason in order to bring about knowledge. (Both of these are a priori)
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Although Rationalist philosophers Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza rely on primacy of reason in order to understand the universe, they are all heavily involved with experimental science.
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Big Bang scientific experiment.
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There is no way for us to know weather their knowledge came from innate rationalism or the ability to reason or weather it came from the sense perceptions.
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Knowledge can’t JUST be based on rationalism if Galileo insists that experimental confirmation is necessary to prove theories.
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However, Hacking believes that it is reason that enables us to secure knowledge from experiments.
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Can we ever accurately predict the results of an experiment?
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