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  1. In theology, the belief that human reason
  2. rather than divine revelation is the correct
  3. means of ascertaining truth and regulating
  4. behaviour. In philosophy, rationalism takes
  5. the view that self-evident propositions
  6. deduced by reason are the sole basis of all
  7. knowledge (disregarding experience of the
  8. senses). It is usually contrasted with
  9. empiricism, which argues that all knowledge
  10. must ultimately be derived from the senses.
  11. Following the work of the philosophers
  12. Descartes and Spinoza, rationalism was
  13. developed by Leibnitz and Kant, through whom
  14. it influenced 19th-century idealism and
  15. 20th-century analytic philosophy.
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