Abstract thinking without feeling cognition, also feeling cognition without logical thinking is not complete. In this sense, feeling cognition and rational cognition are interconnected and united. However, in philosophy, a group of philosophers prefer the feeling cognition, while the other group prefer the rational thinking.
Those who prefer emotions and experiences gained through means are distinguished as supporters of empiricism, but those who prefer rational thinking as supporters of rationalism. As a result, the new era philosophers are divided into empiricists and rationalists.