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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed)' and 'The Consolations of Philosophy'

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge

7570	Innate ideas are trivial (if they are just potentials) or absurd (if they claim infants know a lot) [Locke, by Jolley]

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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]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / c. Tabula rasa

7723	The senses first let in particular ideas, which furnish the empty cabinet [Locke]

7507	The mind is white paper, with no writing, or ideas [Locke]

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The mind is a blank page, on which only experience can write [Locke]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 10. A Priori as Subjective

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The mind cannot produce simple ideas [Locke]