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The epistemic approach centers upon the foundations of knowledge, in particular the debate between Rationalism and Empiricism.

The distinction is mostly applied to modern philosophy with philosophers such John Locke, David Hume and George Berkeley on the empiricist side, and René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz on the other.

However, the distinction can be just as meaningfully applied to current philosophy.