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. ... Spinoza had a very different belief of God, unlike the beliefs of philosophers before him. ... One of the many people that would have a problem with Spinoza's philosophy, would be Hume, a known Empiricist. According to Hume's analysis of our belief in cause-effect relationships, we can have no knowledge of God. ...

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