... my senses, however, since He created humans, the senses are not being manipulated. If you can trust your senses, you can have reason. If youre careful with your senses and reasoning, you can justify science. Descartes is able to build the body of knowledge in a foundational way that gives order and justification. Lockes empiricist account is more plausible he believes that ... our knowledge comes from sense perceptions. Also believes that the mind is empty until experience fills it up. He is a skeptic about the existence of the external world, causation and inductive reasoning. Hume tal...

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... reason, as opposed to Empiricists who believed they are known through experiences like sense perceptions and emotions. Rationalists believed in truths through our innate ideas. Empiricists used deductive reasoning putting greater emphasis on the inductive method. These different beliefs bread different conclusions about the mind, about the external world, and about God. In my paper, I will discuss Spinoza's rationalist perception of the ... ...

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