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The paper discusses how the intellectual struggle between rationalism and empiricism is an academic struggle that has only occupied philosophical debate for several thousand years and yet, the outcome is potentially a paradigm shifting seismic event. The paper argues that while rationalism and its originator, Plato, appeal to the overall mass of humanity because it presupposes the existence of things, which holds much appeal for the religious set, the empiricism as championed by Hume is a more accurate summation of epistemology and its implications on the human condition.

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"The intellectual struggle between rationalism and empiricism is an academic struggle that has only occupied philosophical debate for several thousand years and yet, the outcome is potentially a paradigm shifting seismic event. While rationalism and its originator, Plato, appeal to the overall mass of humanity because it presupposes the existence of things, which holds much appeal for the religious set, the empiricism as championed by Hume is a more accurate summation of epistemology and its implications on the human condition."

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