We can be rationalists in mathematics or a particular area of mathematics and empiricists in all or some of the physical sciences. ... Thus, Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz are theContinental Rationalistsin opposition to Locke, Hume, and Reid, the British Empiricists. Was Descartes a rationalist?
aHis intent was to criticize the positivist norm of doing good science, that one should interact only the explicitly rationalist and empiricist traditions by formulating logical hypotheses and doing repeatable tests. 他的意向是批评做好科学实证主义者准则,那一个应该通过公式化逻辑假说和做反复性的测试...