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1. Innatism - Wikipedia
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innatism
Description: WEBIn the philosophy of mind, innatism is the view that the mind is born with already-formed ideas, knowledge, and beliefs. The opposing doctrine, that the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) at birth and all knowledge is gained from experience and …
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2. Innate idea | Definition, Examples, & Facts | Britannica
Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/innate-idea
Description: WEBInnate idea, in philosophy, an idea allegedly inborn in the human mind, as contrasted with those received or compiled from experience. The doctrine that at least certain ideas (e.g., those of God, infinity, substance) must be innate, because no satisfactory empirical origin of …
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3. Locke: Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Link: https://iep.utm.edu/locke-ep/
Description: WEBLocke argues a priori knowledge should not be confused with innate knowledge (4.7.9); innate knowledge is knowledge we are born with, whereas a priori knowledge is knowledge we acquire by reflecting on our ideas. For example, we can have a priori knowledge that “white is white.” The idea of white must come from experience.
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4. Kant: Philosophy of Mind | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Link: https://iep.utm.edu/kantmind/
Description: WEBThis tradition tended to explain the possession of knowledge of such universal and necessary truths by appeal to innate concepts which could be analyzed to yield the relevant truths. Kant importantly departs from the rationalist tradition, arguing that not all knowledge of universal and necessary truths is acquired via the analysis of concepts ...
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5. 7.1 What Epistemology Studies - Introduction to Philosophy
Link: https://openstax.org/books/introduction-philosophy/pages/7-1-what-epistemology-studies
Description: WEBKnowledge that exists before experience (prior in time) is innate knowledge, or knowledge that one is somehow born with. Theorists disagree over whether innate knowledge exists. But many theorists agree that people can come to know things by merely thinking.
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6. Innate knowledge - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Link: https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/innate-knowledge/v-1
Description: WEBArticle Summary. If innate knowledge exists, there must be innate beliefs and those beliefs must count as knowledge. In consequence, the problem of clarifying the concept of innate knowledge divides in two: to explain what it is for a belief to be innate and then to connect that account with a characterization of what knowledge is.
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7. Knowledge | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Link: https://iep.utm.edu/knowledg/
Description: WEBa. Innate Knowledge. If some instances of knowledge accompany a person into life, how will they reveal themselves within his or her life? How would the person, or indeed anyone else, know that he or she has this innate knowledge? It could depend on what is being known innately — the subject matter of this knowledge with which the person has ...
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8. People’s Intuitions About Innateness | Open Mind | MIT Press
Link: https://direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/doi/10.1162/opmi_a_00029/102858/People-s-Intuitions-About-Innateness
Description: WEBOct 1, 2019 · Whether knowledge (e.g., “objects are cohesive”) is partly innate has been debated for centuries. Here, we ask whether our difficulties with innate knowledge could be grounded in human cognition itself.
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9. 1 - Locke, knowledge and the innate - Cambridge University Press
Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/understanding-empiricism/locke-knowledge-and-the-innate/1F394F3358DF55B127CF3D8BF2AF30B5
Description: WEBCite. Summary. The first and perhaps greatest classic of modern empiricism is John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690). The work is divided into four books. The first criticizes innate knowledge, the second explains the origin of ideas in experience, the third discusses language and the fourth the nature and extent of knowledge.
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10. 7.1: What Epistemology Studies - Humanities LibreTexts
Link: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/Introduction_to_Philosophy_(OpenStax)/07%3A_Epistemology/7.01%3A_What_Epistemology_Studies
Description: WEBKnowledge that exists before experience (prior in time) is innate knowledge, or knowledge that one is somehow born with. Theorists disagree over whether innate knowledge exists. But many theorists agree that people can come to know things by merely thinking.
