Enlightenment thinkers and writers believed that human reason could be used to battle superstition, ignorance and tyranny to build a better world. Logic was the path to truth. Logic alone could be used to fight all sorts of absurd notions; they insisted on combining it with something they call "reason" which consisted of common sense. Philosophers such as Voltaire, John Locke, David Hume, and Montesquieu believed that if people could exercise their reason the world could and should be significantly improved.
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