Bacon and Decartes are regarded respectively as the founders of empiricism and rationalism. Actually, there is much similarity between their ideas on experience and ration, induction and deduction.

• 哲学界把培根和笛卡尔称为经验论和唯理论的始祖，其实他们对经验与理性，归纳与演绎关系坚持了辩证处理，狭隘经验论和纯粹唯理论是其以后的发展深化所导致的。