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Compare and contrast the epistemological positions of the rationalists and empiricists
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... Compare and contrast the epistemological positions of the rationalists and empiricists. Foundationalism is a response towards the sceptic's regress problem. Simply put, the sceptics argue that we can never be certain of anything. Their argument is that if we want to be completely certain of some knowledge, we will inevitably run into an infinite regress. Presently, there are 3 responses towards this problem, namely the infinitists, foundationalists and coherentists. Rationalism and empiricism are two main schools of foundationalism and both of them propose that the regress problem can be solved by having a foundation to knowledge. This foundation knowledge is beyond doubt and hence can be used for a starting point for the rest of human knowledge to be built on. This is the main similarity between the two schools. They maintain that this foundation knowledge can be found and will be able to support the rest of knowledge, termed 'superstructure'. And
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