RATIONALISM ;
# Reason is the prerequisite of all human knowledge,which is derived either through sense experience or a priori reasoning.
# Rationalism promotes inquisitiveness and scientific temper.Thus it is opposed to any kind of metaphysical assumptions of inherited traditions or any other type of dogmatic assumptions,religious prejudice and conservatism.
# Thus rationalism is in tune with scientific temper as both accept open mind in any intellectual pursuit,spirit of inquiry,commitment to truth and a well articulated method to provide progressive knowledge of facts