How does plato's rationalism compare to aristotles empiricism
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- How does Plato's rationalism compare to Aristotle's Empiricism?
- Plato
- Gain knowledge through reason
- Constant change cant give us true knowledge
- A wise man is one who has spent time in contemplation and lives in a way that is withdrawn from everyday world
- Aristotle
- Gain knowledge through senses and experience
- We cant picture colours if we haven't seen them before
- Wise man is someone who has travelled and lived widely
- Gain knowledge through senses and experience
- Both reason and experience can be used together to gain knowledge
- Rationalist might argue reason is more important
- As our senses can mislead us
- If we use the logical process of reason we can be much more certain of our conclusions
- Put a pencil in water it goes bent, this is what we see
- reason tells us that we can not bend pencils with water
- As our senses can mislead us
- Empiricist might argue that experience is superior to reason
- Reason is very limited unless it has experiences to provide it with information
- I cant tell that it is raining from my reason, I need to look
- Reason is very limited unless it has experiences to provide it with information
- Plato
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