modern-rationalism-empiricism
✓Master Early Modern philosophy from Descartes through Kant. Use for: rationalism, empiricism, the epistemological turn, mind-body problem, substance metaphysics. Triggers: 'Cartesian', 'cogito', 'Descartes', 'Spinoza', 'Leibniz', 'Locke', 'Berkeley', 'Hume', 'tabula rasa', 'innate ideas', 'impressions ideas', 'monads', 'substance', 'causation', 'personal identity', 'transcendental', 'synthetic a priori', 'Kant', 'categories', 'thing-in-itself', 'noumenon', 'phenomenon'.
Installation
SKILL.md
Master the early modern period (c. 1600-1800)—the age of the "epistemological turn" when philosophy focused on questions of knowledge, mind, and method, culminating in Kant's critical synthesis.
Medieval Philosophy: What is real? (Metaphysics first) Modern Philosophy: What can we know? (Epistemology first)
| Innate Ideas | Some ideas are in the mind prior to experience | | Reason as Source | Reason, not sense, provides genuine knowledge | | Mathematical Model | Philosophy should emulate mathematical certainty | | Substance Metaphysics | Reality consists of substances with attributes |
Master Early Modern philosophy from Descartes through Kant. Use for: rationalism, empiricism, the epistemological turn, mind-body problem, substance metaphysics. Triggers: 'Cartesian', 'cogito', 'Descartes', 'Spinoza', 'Leibniz', 'Locke', 'Berkeley', 'Hume', 'tabula rasa', 'innate ideas', 'impressions ideas', 'monads', 'substance', 'causation', 'personal identity', 'transcendental', 'synthetic a priori', 'Kant', 'categories', 'thing-in-itself', 'noumenon', 'phenomenon'. Source: chrislemke/stoffy.
Facts (cite-ready)
Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/chrislemke/stoffy --skill modern-rationalism-empiricism- Source
- chrislemke/stoffy
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- </>Dev Tools
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- First Seen
- 2026-02-01
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is modern-rationalism-empiricism?
Master Early Modern philosophy from Descartes through Kant. Use for: rationalism, empiricism, the epistemological turn, mind-body problem, substance metaphysics. Triggers: 'Cartesian', 'cogito', 'Descartes', 'Spinoza', 'Leibniz', 'Locke', 'Berkeley', 'Hume', 'tabula rasa', 'innate ideas', 'impressions ideas', 'monads', 'substance', 'causation', 'personal identity', 'transcendental', 'synthetic a priori', 'Kant', 'categories', 'thing-in-itself', 'noumenon', 'phenomenon'. Source: chrislemke/stoffy.
How do I install modern-rationalism-empiricism?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/chrislemke/stoffy --skill modern-rationalism-empiricism Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/chrislemke/stoffy
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- Category
- </>Dev Tools
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01