Rationalism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Lat.,=belonging to reason, in philosophy, a theory that holds that reason...rationalist position, and John Locke the empirical. Immanuel Kant in his critical philosophy attempted a synthesis of these two...discern such coherence. Irrational philosophies accordingly stress the will at the...