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Rationalism

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Rationalism holds that reason is a genuine source of substantive knowledge about reality—some truths are knowable independent of the senses.

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Descartes and Leibniz argued that mathematics and metaphysics rest on innate ideas the mind brings to experience.

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Rationalists do not reject the senses; they deny the senses are the whole story.