id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9547 Speculative reason - Wikipedia .html text/html 674 133 49 Speculative reason Wikipedia This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. The distinction between the two goes at least as far back as the ancient Greek philosophers, such as Plato and Aristotle, who distinguished between theory (theoria, or a wide, bird's eye view of a topic, or clear vision of its structure) and practice (praxis), as well as techne. Speculative reason provides the universal, necessary principles of logic, such as the principle of non-contradiction, which must apply everywhere, regardless of the specifics of the situation. Though many other thinkers have erected systems based on the distinction, two important later thinkers who have done so are Aquinas (who follows Aristotle in many respects) and Immanuel Kant. Hidden categories: Articles lacking in-text citations from July 2009 All articles lacking in-text citations ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9547.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9547.txt