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Panrationalism (or comprehensive rationalism) holds two premises true: # A rationalist accepts any position that can be justified or established by appeal to the rational criteria or authorities. # He accepts only those positions that can be so justified. The first problem that needs to be dealt with is: what is the rational criterion or authority to which they appeal? Here the panrationalists diverge into two groups: # Intellectualists – to whom the rational authority lies in the human intellect, in the faculty of reason. # Empiricists – to whom the rational authority is achieved by sense experience (such as seeing or hearing). Descartes is considered the founder of rationalism and gave the illustration ''
cogito ergo sum The Latin , usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am", is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French as , in his 1637 ''Discourse on the Method'', so as to reach a wider audien ...
'' as the paradigm to demonstrate what he believed. The problem of both these appeals is that: # Intellectualism is "too wide" by letting too much in (basically everything, in a strict sense). # Empiricism is "too narrow" in that it excludes too much (basically everything, in a strict sense). In his '' The Critique of Pure Reason''
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sought to reconcile both appeals.


See also

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Critical rationalism Critical rationalism is an epistemological philosophy advanced by Karl Popper on the basis that, if a statement cannot be logically deduced (from what is known), it might nevertheless be possible to logically falsify it. Following Hume, Poppe ...
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Pancritical rationalism Pancritical rationalism (literally "criticism of all things", from pan-, "all", also known as PCR), also called comprehensively critical rationalism (CCR), is a development of critical rationalism and panrationalism originated by William Warren B ...


References

* W. W. Bartley, III, ''The Retreat to Commitment'', La Salle; Open Court Publishing Company, 1984. Philosophical anthropology Rationalism Epistemological theories {{epistemology-stub