Larks comments on What's in a name? That which we call a rationalist… - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Larks 18 August 2009 08:50:18PM 2 points [-]

My problem with Rationalism as a name would be a risk of confusion with the old 18th century Rationalism (Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant), opposed to Empiricism (Hume, Locke, Mill), where most of us would probably agree with the latter crowd more.