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Full Idea
That there is more in the content of a concept than there is in the experiences that prompt us to form it is the burden of the traditional rationalist critique of empiricism (as worked out by Leibniz and Kant).
Gist of Idea
Rationalists say there is more to a concept than the experience that prompts it
Source
Jerry A. Fodor (In a Critical Condition [2000], Ch.12)
Book Ref
Fodor,Jerry A.: 'In Critical Condition' [MIT 2000], p.150