Rationalism is the belief in innate ideas, reason, and the process of deduction. Empiricism is the belief in sense perception, induction, and that there are no innate ideas. ... The other is reasoning gained from perception or "matters of fact ". ... Descartes and Hume both made valid arguments for their beliefs, considering their ideas are still popular today. ... However, when dealing with people I take Hume's method of reasoning into account and use my personal judgement and prior experience to determine how I act and behave. ...

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It is often said that we are born with concepts and it is these concepts that structure our minds, beliefs, and actions. ... Hume is the second philosopher I will discuss. Hume's beliefs are different from Socrates. ... This theory does not include reasoning as a basis for you decisions. ... Hume's principles of cause and effect substantiate immediate learning, but you have to actually experience the event and cannot use reasoning to make your decisions. ...

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It is beliefs based on other beliefs, but on the bottom is a firm foundation of belief. ... If youre careful with your senses and reasoning, you can justify science. ... He is a skeptic about the existence of the external world, causation and inductive reasoning. ... By understanding the world through cause and effect you generate hypotheses (Hume p.269). ... However, in order to do this reasoning we are assuming that nature is uniform. ...

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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt Reality is the actuality of things, what is really happening, without interpretation. Perception is that interpretation of the experience. Let's say for example that the reality of things may be that you are i...

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