Rationalism Fideism Experientialism Evidentialism Pragmatism Combinationalism Rationalism Rationalism stresses that truth can be known through the innate reasoning of the human mind. It is most easily understood as a contrast to empiricism, which stressing the senses. There are innate ideas or principles known in the mind which are independent of experience. The mind is not a blank slate. I think, therefore I am.
Truth is derived by logical deduction from self-evident principles.
There is rational certainty in arguments for God. The rationally inescapable is the real. Unless the law of non-contradiction holds, there is no possibility of knowing truth. The mind is not a blank slate, or nothing could ever be known. Reality is knowable.