Blog Post 2

Neli Pani

PHI 100-24N

14 October 2014

Blog Post 2

The debate between rationalism and empiricism is that rationalism is that the ideas come from our self and our thoughts. Empiricism ideas come without someone thinking, so it just comes out the way you say it.

I argue with rationalism that some ideas are innate. The ideas that are innate are God, why bad things happen? and the natural courses of life. We aren’t able to explain God because we don’t know if he truly exists. Also explaining why bad things happen is irrelevant because no one knows how it happened.  Natural courses of life would be an idea because everything happens for a reason.  These three ideas can’t derive from experience because no one has seen God and there is no proof. Also, we don’t know when things will happen to us because that is how the world is.

For the explanatory breadth the rationalism explain the origin of more ideas than the other. The idea that the other theory fails to address is about God because we aren’t able to describe how he work things because no one seen him.

For explanatory depth rationalism does explain the origin of certain ideas that the other theory. Rationalism is more reasonable and logic. Also no one has had experienced seeing God.

For simplicity empiricism have fewer parts because the idea can be given the wrong answer because different people experience it differently. Empiricism is more complex is that it’s difficult to grasp because experience changes. Rationalism would simple because because the ideas are made up of the person.

For conservation, empiricism is more consistent with our current beliefs. The beliefs that are more current are that people think before they speak. If you don't think before you speak, you sometimes say things you don't actually mean.

1. Rationalism and Empiricism are the most plausible explanations of where ideas come from.

2. Rationalism has much more explanatory depth, explanatory breadth, conservatism, and simplicity.

3. Therefore, Rationalism is the best explanations of where the ideas come from.