(June 17, 2014 at 5:16 pm)Irrational Wrote: Rationalism is a tool that empiricism relies on anyway. They are not rival philosophies or opposites. You think inferences based on observation are not rationalistic in nature as well?
Empiricism can inform rationalism, sure. I said so above. Rationalism requires you to depart from empiricism alone, because if it were empirically proven, then nothing more is needed.
But what atheists seen to be saying to me, is that empiricism is everything and nothing else rates as useful. This denied rationalism, which is the sphere of religion.
