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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Other than rationalism and empiricism, are there any other ways of gaining knowledge?
gpt
Rationalism and empiricism aren't really ways of gaining knowledge, they're traditions of philosophical work - or historical hypotheses about what historians suppose constitute such traditions.

If you're interested in the issue of sources of knowledge, the place to begin would be with an introductory survey of epistemology--e.g., Audi's *Epistemology*.

A simplified schema here would be to suggest we distinguish between intuitive and inferential sources of knowledge. Intuition in this sense refers to an act of being directly given information about the world, as may occur through the traditional senses (i.e. vision, touch, etc.) and may occur through other sources (e.g., an intuition of aesthetic or moral value). Inference in this sense refers to a mental act by which we move in thought from one piece of knowledge to a different piece of knowledge, as in deduction (i.e., when the former entails the latter) and inductive or nondeductive inference (i.e., when the former lends plausibility to the latter), and perhaps other cognitive acts like these (e.g., abductive inferences, where the latter thought is taken to be the best theory of the former).