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== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> == * '''Rationalism''' β The belief that reason and logic are the primary sources of knowledge. * '''Empiricism''' β The belief that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. * '''RenΓ© Descartes''' β The "Father of Modern Philosophy"; a Rationalist famous for saying, "I think, therefore I am" ('''Cogito, ergo sum'''). * '''John Locke''' β An Empiricist who proposed that the human mind at birth is a '''Tabula Rasa''' (Blank Slate). * '''David Hume''' β A radical Empiricist and skeptic who argued that we cannot even be sure that "Cause and Effect" is real. * '''Innate Ideas''' β Ideas that the mind is born with (e.g., the idea of God or Perfection). * '''A Priori''' β Knowledge that comes before experience (Reasoning from definitions). * '''A Posteriori''' β Knowledge that comes after experience (Reasoning from observations). * '''Deduction''' β Reasoning from the general to the specific (Rationalist method). * '''Induction''' β Reasoning from specific observations to general laws (Empiricist method). * '''Primary Qualities''' β Properties of objects that exist in the object itself (e.g., Size, Weight). * '''Secondary Qualities''' β Properties that only exist in the mind of the observer (e.g., Color, Smell, Taste). * '''Baruch Spinoza''' β A Rationalist who argued that God and Nature are the same thing (Pantheism). </div> <div style="background-color: #006400; color: #FFFFFF; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
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