  While the demarcation between rationalism and empiricism may be useful as an interpretive and pedagogical tool, it should be borne in mind that it is a construction in retrospect. The distinction between Empirici and Dogmatici is traceable from ancient Roman medicine to Baconian (both Roger and Francis) philosophy of science. While Kant and his early commentators imported the distinction into philosophy, the terminology of “rationalism” and “empiricism”, and the association of these terms with, respectively, the Continent and Britain emerged at the end of the nineteenth century (Aaron Wilson, 16–20).