Describe the difference between Rationalism and Empiricism.

In Epistemology (philosophy of knowledge), philosophers debate the question of how dependent we are on our senses to obtain knowledge. Empiricists, like Locke and Hume, claim that our majority of knowledge is obtained through sense experience, whereas Rationalists, like Descartes, claim that there are other ways that knowledge can be obtained, independently of sense perceptions. They argue that reason can be used to obtain knowledge about the world.

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