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Empiricism vs Rationalism - English
URL: http://cogweb.ucla.edu/CogSci/Empiricism.html

The Debate Continues

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Peter Suber, Links for "Rationalism & Empiricism" - English
URL: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/re/relinks.htm

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Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - empiricism - English
URL: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/empiricism.html

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Giere: Origins of Logical Empiricism - English
URL: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/G/giere_origins.html

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Empiricism - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05407a.htm

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Empiricism - English
URL: http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GLOSSARY/EMPIRIC.HTM

A short essay defining empiricism and its history in ancient Greece, Chinese and Japanese Neo-Confucianism, and as the basis of Enlightenment science. This essay is an entry in the General Glossary in the larger resource, World Cultures Glossary, at http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/GLOSSARY.HTM.

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Two Dogmas of Empiricism - English
URL: http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html

Modern empiricism has been conditioned in large part by two dogmas. One is a belief in some fundamental cleavage between truths which are analytic, or grounded in meanings independently of matters of fact and truths which are synthetic, or grounded in fact. The other dogma is reductionism: the belief that each meaningful statement is equivalent to some logical construct upon terms which refer to immediate experience. Both dogmas, I shall argue, are ill founded. One effect of abandoning them is, as we shall see, a blurring of the supposed boundary between speculative metaphysics and natural science. Another effect is a shift toward pragmatism.

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British Empiricism (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - English
URL: http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/emp-brit.htm

"British Empiricism" refers to the 18th century philosophical movement in Great Britain which maintained that all knowledge comes from experience. Continental Rationalists maintained that knowledge comes from foundational concepts known intuitively through reason, such as innate ideas. Other concepts are then deductively drawn from these. British Empiricists staunchly rejected the theory of innate ideas and argued that knowledge is based on both sense experience and internal mental experiences, such as emotions and self-reflection.

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