An essay that argues for Empiricism against rationalism using direct quotes from Hume and Descartes

In the argument of empiricism versus rationalism, empiricism is the superior position. Rene Descartes supports rationalism, which is the attainment of knowledge through reason. David Hume supports empiricism, the attainment of knowledge a posteriori, through experience. Both positions have strong arguments. Descartes is wary of "[accepting] anything as true that [he] did not plainly know to be such" . Descartes believes that we must "be assured of using [our] reason in everything..." in order to gain true knowledge. Hume, on the other hand, believes that the association of ideas is…