Continental Rationalism

  • Rationalism
    • The view that important truths about the world can be established by a priori reasoning, i.e. by logical deduction from self-evident truths. Such truths would be contingently true and knowable a priori (independent of experience).
  • The Continental Rationalists:
  • Self-evident Truths
    • Descartes
      • That Descartes thinks
    • Spinoza
      • Spinoza’s axioms
    • Leibniz
      • Principle of Sufficient Reason
      • Principle of Contradiction