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{{Bibliographic Record
|Title=Continental Rationalism
|Resource Type=collection article
|Author=Thomas M. Lennon, Shannon Dea,
|Year=2014
|Abstract=The expression “continental rationalism” refers to a set of views more or
less shared by a number of philosophers active on the European continent
during the latter two thirds of the seventeenth century and the beginning of
the eighteenth. Rationalism is most often characterized as an
epistemological position. On this view, to be a rationalist requires at least
one of the following: (1) a privileging of reason and intuition over
sensation and experience, (2) regarding all or most ideas as innate rather
than adventitious, (3) an emphasis on certain rather than merely probable
knowledge as the goal of enquiry. While all of the continental rationalists
meet one or more of these criteria, this is arguably the consequence of a
deeper tie that binds them together—that is, a metaphysical commitment
to the reality of substance, and, in particular, to substance as an underlying
principle of unity.
|URL=http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/continental-rationalism/
|Collection=Zalta (Ed.) (2016)
}}
|Title=Continental Rationalism
|Resource Type=collection article
|Author=Thomas M. Lennon, Shannon Dea,
|Year=2014
|Abstract=The expression “continental rationalism” refers to a set of views more or
less shared by a number of philosophers active on the European continent
during the latter two thirds of the seventeenth century and the beginning of
the eighteenth. Rationalism is most often characterized as an
epistemological position. On this view, to be a rationalist requires at least
one of the following: (1) a privileging of reason and intuition over
sensation and experience, (2) regarding all or most ideas as innate rather
than adventitious, (3) an emphasis on certain rather than merely probable
knowledge as the goal of enquiry. While all of the continental rationalists
meet one or more of these criteria, this is arguably the consequence of a
deeper tie that binds them together—that is, a metaphysical commitment
to the reality of substance, and, in particular, to substance as an underlying
principle of unity.
|URL=http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/continental-rationalism/
|Collection=Zalta (Ed.) (2016)
}}
