Metamethodology and Modern Philosophy

The study of Method per se could be called Methodology, but since that term is commonly used for more specialized purposes, an alternative is Metamethodology.  So, insofar as each of the main doctrines of Modern Philosophy, Rationalism and Empiricism, begins, as has been previously discussed, as a Method, the study of Modern Philosophy, if not the foundation of any Philosophy, is Metamethodology.  Now, a Method is an organized way of proceeding.  Hence, Method connotes both How-to and Can-do.  In other words, it is an expression of Techne, and evinces the equivalence of Knowledge and Power, in the most general sense of the latter concept.  Thus, for example, Descartes' I Think, arrived at via a Method, is preceded by both I Know How and I Can Do.  Likewise, whether or not Locke is correct to assert that there are no innate Ideas, his Empiricism is a Rational procedure.