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The belief that if you think hard enough in a chair, truth arrives without coffee.
means The philosophical view that reason, not sensory experience, is the primary source and test of knowledge.
from From Latin 'ratio' meaning reckoning, calculation, or reason — itself from 'reri,' to think or calculate. The '-ism' got bolted on in the modern era to name a movement, as thinkers like Descartes set reason up as the throne room of truth, with the senses demoted to mere messengers who might be lying.
- founding hero
- Descartes doubted everything except his own doubting
- rival camp
- empiricists think chairs need windows and data
- big flaw
- pure logic still built flat-earth maps for centuries
- modern echo
- silicon valley rediscovered it and called it first principles