Reason as a way of knowing has both strengths and weaknesses. In this essay I will define the three area of reason and display their strengths and weaknesses.
The power of reason is divided into three areas. The first one is Rationalism, which comes from the Latin meaning “reason. It states that the reason plays the main role in understanding the world and obtaining knowledge, without regard to experience. Rationalism existed throughout the history of philosophy and is usually associated with three philosophers: René Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Baruch Spinoza. The Second is Reason, which has to be taken to be a subjective faculty to form concepts. It is the philosophy of intellect as opposed to sensibility. For Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, it resulted in significant developments in mathematics. The final area is that reason as a faculty organises and structures out thought. If it is expressed though our possession of language then we use modus pones, tollens......
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