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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Famous quotes containing the words innate and/or ideas:
“In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
“Things perceived by the senses are immediately perceived by the senses; and things immediately perceived by the senses are ideas; and ideas cannot exist without the mind, their existence therefore consists in being perceived; when therefore they are actually perceived, there can be no doubt of their existence.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)