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Rationalism claims, that the information we gain is independent from our external experience (i.e. the senses). they use deduction as a scientific method. Deduction means, that we form a complex ideas by ass...

Rationalism refers to a school of thought which prioritises reason as the main source of knowledge. It hold the belief that we can know things about the world through reasoning alone, without any physical, m...

J. S. Mill’s commonly called ‘Harm Principle’ has demonstrated to be permanently and influentially fueling debates on the topic of the limits of legitimate political power and its intervention in the people’...

A categorical mistake is where by you classify something in the incorrect category. For example, stating something smells like blue, blue is not in the category of smells it is instead in the category of col...

The distinction between necessary and synthetic statements is an ontological distinction. We can discern between statements which would hold in all possible worlds, and ones which could be rendered false if ...