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authority" (Honderich, 1995, p. 741). It goes on to explain that while an empirical philosopher contends that experience is the foundation of all knowledge, a rationalist maintains that it
knowledge can only be based on reason (Honderich, 1995). Rationalism customarily takes two forms, through knowledge that is not dependent upon the senses in order to be true, and
that which becomes somehow implanted in the mind without being placed there by the standard way of sensory perceptions (Honderich, 1995). This is referred to as a priori, which,
translated from Latin, means "prior to experience" (Honderich, 1995, p. 743). Aristotle is not only one of the founding fathers of Western philosophy, but he was also the chief
architect of the rationalist school of philosophical thought, which later became the central component of Immanuel Kants Critique of Pure Reason. Aristotle remained unconvinced that experience was a viable
proponent of knowledge; in his treatise, Posterior Analytics, which is widely accepted today as the blueprint for modern science and mathematical logic, he attempts to determine the origin of true
knowledge. In the portion of Posterior Analytics entitled "Topica," Aristotle lays the groundwork for rationalism by discussing the two types of reasoning. According to Aristotle (1997), "Reasoning is demonstration
when it proceeds from premises which are true and primary or of such a kind that we have derived our original knowledge of them through premises which are primary and
true. Reasoning is dialectical which reasons from generally accepted opinions" (p. 273). He dismisses that anything based on assumptions or opinions can legitimately pass for knowledge, he also
notes that while reason through demonstration is valid, i.e. "seeing is believing," not all knowledge can be demonstrated. But everything has to come from somewhere; therefore, Aristotle postulated what
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