We can not change our assumptions about what the world without changing the way we gain knowledge of it. Each worldview corresponds to a mode of knowing, that is what is called epistemology. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies knowledge and tries to answer the question: what distinguishes true knowledge from false knowledge? In terms of models that attempt to explain the reality could be considered as follows: "How can develop theories or models to explain reality better than your competitors?
The Empire of Reason
rationalism and empiricism contemporaries had their origins in ancient Greece. For Plato, knowledge is the awareness of the universal forms and ideas that exist independently subject who knows. Aristotle on the other hand, emphasized the logical and empirical knowledge are associated with matches but that knowledge is the result of the apprehension of our right to universal and necessary principles. With the Renaissance there are two dominant epistemological positions: empiricism, which sees knowledge as a result of our sensory perception and Rationalism, which describes knowledge as a result of reasoning.
scientific revolution led to intellectual and physical tools to obtain more precise information about the world and be able to analyze. The condition is required to suppress our subjective experience for our senses to perceive reality without "obstacles" and "distortions." Plus, will this be really possible?
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