Which of the following is true of rationalism or empiricism?
A) Rationalists believe that knowledge comes primarily through the senses.
B) Empiricists believe that knowledge comes primarily through the senses.
C) Immanuel Kant was a prominent empiricist.
D) Empiricists believe that knowledge comes primarily through the use of reason.

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Rationalists and empiricists differ over the question of what the main source of human knowledge is. Rationalists believe that human knowledge comes primarily from the use of reason unaided by the senses, while empiricists believe that human knowledge comes primarily from the use of the senses. Rationalists tend to think that the ways of knowing characteristic of mathematics-careful arguments that do not rely on observations-form the bulk of human knowledge. Empiricists insist that careful observation plays a far more important role in unaided reason in gaining knowledge. Immanuel Kant rejected both rationalism and empiricism.

Which of the Following Is True of Rationalism or Empiricism