Context: Philosophical empiricists hold no knowledge to be properly inferred or deduced unless it is derived from one's sense-based experience. This view is commonly contrasted with rationalism, which states that knowledge may be derived from reason independently of the senses. For example, John Locke held that some knowledge (e.g. knowledge of God's existence) could be arrived at through intuition and reasoning alone. Similarly Robert Boyle, a prominent advocate of the experimental method, held that we have innate ideas. The main continental rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz) were also advocates of the empirical "scientific method".

Question: What is commonly contrasted with empiricism?
Answer: rationalism

Question: Where does rationalism say knowledge comes from?
Answer: reason independently of the senses

Question: What is an example knowledge being derived from intuition?
Answer: knowledge of God's existence

Question: What did Locke think some knowledge could come from?
Answer: intuition and reasoning alone

Question: Where were the main European rationalists?
Answer: Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz

Question: Who were the main philosophical empiricists?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did John Locke say required information from one's experience?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Where was philosophical empiricism popular?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Why are empiricists and rationalists similar?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How did empiricists discover innate ideas?
Answer: Unanswerable