Innate Ideas
Analysts sometimes divide the philosophy of innatism into two areas:
- knowledge innatism - this doctrine asserts that humans have access to knowledge which they possess innately
- idea innatism (also known as concept innatism) - this doctrine asserts that humans have access to certain inborn ideas
Knowledge innatism seems to entail idea innatism.
Idea innatism does not necessarily entail knowledge innatism, although this is debatable.
An innatist might endorse an innatist account of ideas, or of knowledge, or (the most common innatist position) of both ideas and knowledge
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—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
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