The concepts are linked through epistemological discourse, where [1] and [2] contrast the roles of experience and reason in establishing truth, while [3] identifies both as fundamental components of the field of epistemology.
claimRené Descartes considered reason to be endowed with innate ideas and principles, establishing it as the primary instrument of knowledge and the guarantor of truth.
claimEmpiricism claims that the source of knowledge and the criterion of truth is experience rather than reason.