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Ultimately both the empiricists and the rationalists failed to provide a satisfactory explanation for how sense-perception enabled us to interact with

5reality-in-itself. The rationalists concluded that sense-perception was not the best tool to use to find truth, but then how were we to interact with reality if not through sense-perception? The empiricists conclluded tha.666u 7t while we must rely on sense-perception, we should be very cautious in our conclusions, even skeptical.

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