5052 | When Gentiles follow the law, they must have the law written in their hearts [Paul] |
22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
3630 | Our thinking about external things doesn't disprove the existence of innate ideas [Descartes] |
24022 | Our souls possess divine seeds of knowledge, which can bear spontaneous fruit [Descartes] |
7570 | Innate ideas are trivial (if they are just potentials) or absurd (if they claim infants know a lot) [Locke, by Jolley] |
12472 | If the only test of innateness is knowing, then all of our knowledge is innate [Locke] |
7709 | A proposition can't be in the mind if we aren't conscious of it [Locke] |
4018 | Innate ideas were followed up with innate doctrines, which stopped reasoning and made social control possible [Locke] |
12929 | All of our thoughts come from within the soul, and not from the senses [Leibniz] |
12933 | Arithmetic and geometry are implicitly innate, awaiting revelation [Leibniz] |
12991 | Children learn language fast, with little instruction and few definitions [Leibniz] |
21081 | We are equipped with the a priori intuitions needed for the concept of right [Kant] |
14774 | Innate truths are very uncertain and full of error, so they certainly have exceptions [Peirce] |
2990 | Contrary to commonsense, most of what is in the mind seems to be unlearned [Fodor] |
3008 | Evolution suggests that innate knowledge of human psychology would be beneficial [Fodor] |
3009 | Sticklebacks have an innate idea that red things are rivals [Fodor] |