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Who were the rationalists and the empiricists in western philosophy

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Plato and Aristotle, were both rationalists. John Locke and David Hume were both empeiricists.

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René Descartes, after Frans Hals, 2nd half of the 17th century. Descartes laid the foundation for 17th-century continental rationalism, later advocated by Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz, and opposed by the empiricist school of thought consisting of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.

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