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	Innate Idea
		Innate Idea - An innate idea is an idea that is present in the mind at birth.
		Descartes believed that inborn in our minds are certain mathematical ideas (such as the ideas of geometrical shapes), metaphysical ideas (such as the idea of God and of essences), and eternal truths (such as the truth that something cannot come from nothing).
		These innate ideas play a central role in his theory of knowledge.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/principles/terms/term_10.html (71 words)

	Innate idea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In philosophy and psychology, an innate idea is a concept or item of knowledge which is said to be universal to all humanity — that is, something people are born with rather than something people have learned through experience.
		Philosophically, the debate over innate ideas is central to the conflict between rationalist and empiricist epistemologies.
		The main antagonist to the concept of innate ideas is John Locke, a contemporary of Leibniz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Innate_idea (1090 words)

	Locke on Innateness
		The theory of innate ideas hold that all normal persons are in possession of, and regard as true, those ideas that are innate, e.g., everyone agrees that everything is what it is and not another thing.
		Even if some ideas could not be had unless we used the faculty of reason, this would not show that such ideas are innate, because there are a lot of ideas that require deduction that are not innate.
		If the innate idea theorist responds to the argument that putative innate moral truths are constantly violated by claiming that such violation is the result of education, custom and culture corrupting the mind, they will have given up the claim that such principles receive universal consent.
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		For, bating perhaps some faint ideas of hunger, and thirst, and warmth, and some pains, which they may have felt in the womb, there is not the least appearance of any settled ideas at all in them; especially of ideas answering the terms which make up those universal propositions that are esteemed innate principles.
		So that if whole and part are innate ideas, extension and number must be so too; it being impossible to have an idea of a relation, without having any at all of the thing to which it belongs, and in which it is founded.
		That the idea the term worship stands for is not in the understanding of children, and a character stamped on the mind in its first original, I think will be easily granted, by any one that considers how few there be amongst grown men who have a clear and distinct notion of it.
	www.ilt.columbia.edu /publications/Projects/digitexts/locke/understanding/chapter0103.html (3959 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Idea
		idea, that true universality is possible, for only in the vital mental act is there really reference of the one to the many.
		idea, when considered as part of the process of direct perception, is itself the subjective act of cognition, not the thing cognized.
		The subsequent literature on the Platonic ideas is enormous.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07630a.htm (3695 words)

	Locke Studies, Innate Ideas And The Infinite, by G. A. J. Rogers
		It is not simply that we have an innate idea of God as a supremely perfect being that is crucial, for we might have an innate idea that corresponded to nothing, as we might if we had an innate idea of, say, a dragon.
		The text is a letter to Mersenne in which he reiterates the three-fold classification of ideas we have already noted and says of the third, innate, category that it includes ‘the idea of God, mind, body, triangle, and in general all those which represent true, immutable and eternal essences’.
		The first of these is the claim that there are innate ideas, which are required to account for our knowledge of certain truths which cannot be confirmed by experience, such as that all numbers are either odd or even.
	www.luc.edu /philosophy/LockeStudies/articles/rogers-infinity.htm (5593 words)

	Editorials 151: July 2007
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		Number one could be said to be his belief in the redemptive power of violence; the idea of using violence to achieve a positive end result is a dodgy one.
		It may be the dominant position in most strands of Christianity but if we look at even the ‘Just War’ theory (see here on the INNATE website) it is clear that this was not, and could not be, a ‘just war’ in even conservative Christian thinking (let alone more radical peace church interpretations).
	www.innatenonviolence.org /editorials (3555 words)

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		Either that it is an innate principle which upon all occasions excites and directs the actions of all men; or else, that it is a truth which all men have imprinted on their minds, and which therefore they know and assent to.
		There is a great deal of difference between an innate law, and a law of nature between something imprinted on our minds in their very original, and something that we, being ignorant of, may attain to the knowledge of, by the use and due application of our natural faculties.
		Principles not innate, unless their Ideas be innate Had those who would persuade us that there are innate principles not taken them together in gross, but considered separately the parts out of which those propositions are made, they would not, perhaps, have been so forward to believe they were innate.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/10615/10615.txt (13156 words)

	innate idea -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The doctrine that at least certain ideas (e.g., those of God, infinity, substance) must be innate, because no satisfactory empirical origin of them could be conceived, flourished in the 17th century and found in René Descartes its most prominent...
		In his critical writings he focused on the innate qualities of works of art, in contrast to the prevailing tendency to evaluate them on the basis of their moral and educational value.
		It was the delayed shock waves of the ideas of an 18th-century Frenchman that were to crack the foundations of education in the 20th century and cause their virtual upheaval in the United States.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9042444 (805 words)

	Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy
		The idea of God as Infinite Being is an innate idea in the human mind, an idea which cannot be created by any finite being.
		Innate ideas are inherently present in the reasoning of the mind.
		A criticism that may be made of Descartes’ assertion that there is an innate idea of God in the human mind is that this assertion implies that all human beings have the same idea of God.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/timewarp/descartes.html (1394 words)

	Locke ECHU BOOK I Chapter III Other considerations concerning Innate Principles, both Speculative and Practical
		If any idea can be imagined innate, theidea of God may, of all others, for many reasons, be thought so; since it is hard to conceive how there should be innate moral principles, without an innate idea of a Deity.
		To which let me add: if therebe any innate ideas, any ideas in the mind which the mind does not actually think on, they must be lodged in the memory; and from thence must be brought into view by remembrance; i.e.
		Since if there be such innate ideas and impressions, plainly different from all other perceptions and knowledge, every one will find it true in himself of the evidence of these supposed innate maxims, I have spoken already: of their usefulness I shall have occasion to speak more hereafter.
	www.rbjones.com /rbjpub/philos/classics/locke/ctb1c03.htm (3978 words)

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		Hence it follows that [] the ideas of pain, colours, sounds and the like must be all the more innate if, on the occasion of certain corporeal motions, our mind is to be capable of representing them to itself, for there is no similarity between these ideas and the corporeal motions.
		According to D, sensory ideas are innate in the sense that it is an innate mental faculty that brings them about (or brings them to consciousness) on the occasion of certain stimuli.
		Sensory ideas are innate, according to D, in the sense that the mind possesses an innate faculty to form (or bring to consciousness) them on the occasion of certain stimuli.
	ruccs.rutgers.edu /~rafaeua/hphilfall00/Locken1.htm (1075 words)

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		The first is Innate; an innate idea would be an idea that someone is born with.
		This is an idea that just comes to you and is out of your control; this type of idea may or may not be real since we may be deceived.
		He feels that humans develop ideas in on of two ways; sensation, the first thought due to a new experience, or refection, which is the remembering of a sensation.
	www.valdosta.edu /~ejcaldwe/PHILPAPER1w.htm (1719 words)

	Innatism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Innate knowledge is inborn knowledge which is universal, 100% certain, and logical.
		Innatists might use the idea "equals added to equals yields equals" as an example of innate knowledge Such an idea is innate, they argue, because it is something that we do not have to prove with experiments, but rather it is a statement the truth of which is immediately apparent to us.
		A second category of innate ideas is moral truths that are immediately apparent to all persons.
	www.whitworth.edu /Academic/Department/Core/Classes/CO250/Intro/d_innat.htm (327 words)

	Innate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Look up innate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
		Innate is used to describe an inherent or intrinsic characteristic or property of some thing, such as a quality or capability which is possessed since birth.
		This page was last modified 04:44, 28 January 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Innate (70 words)

	Locke: An essay concerning human understanding
		First, I shall inquire into the original of those ideas, notions, or whatever else you please to call them, which a man observes, and is conscious to himself he has in his mind; and the ways whereby the understanding comes to be furnished with them.
		But, since no proposition can be innate unless the ideas about which it is be innate, this will be to suppose all our ideas of colours, sounds, tastes, figure, andc., innate, than which there cannot be anything more opposite to reason and experience.
		Thus, having given the marks of the innate principles or common notions, and asserted their being imprinted on the minds of men by the hand of God, he proceeds to set them down, and they are these: 1.
	www.brembs.net /metabiology/essay.html (12993 words)

	John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
		Idea of identity suited to the idea it is applied to.
		Ideas of modes and relations are archetypes and cannot be...
		Ideas of substances may be false in reference to existing...
	enlightenment.supersaturated.com /essays/text/johnlocke/essay/longcontents.html (5891 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Innate idea
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		Innate ideas are ideas that one is born with, and thus suggestive of genetic possibilies.
		The existence of such ideas is widely debated among philosophers.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Innate_idea (191 words)

	Philosophy essays - Plato and Locke's Views on an Innate Idea
		According to Plato most if not all of our knowledge is innate.
		view on innate ideas and determine which is plausible.
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