European philosophy: Empiricism and Rationalism

Author: Chen Xiuzhai
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Publish Date: 1986-11-01
Features: "Empiricism" and "Rationalism" are terms originating from the West, also translated as "Empiricism" and "Rationalism." These types of thought, while they can be said to manifest in varying degrees and forms in people's minds regardless of time or place, as more typical theories of epistemology, and as two schools that both oppose and struggle against each other while also influencing and permeating each other, appeared in the history of philosophy during the early period of the bourgeois anti-feudal revolution in Western Europe, specifically from the late 16th to the mid-18th century.