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Single Idea 3009
[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge
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Full Idea
God gave the male stickleback the idea that whatever is red is a rival.
Gist of Idea
Sticklebacks have an innate idea that red things are rivals
Source
Jerry A. Fodor (Psychosemantics [1987], p.133)
Book Ref
Fodor,Jerry A.: 'Psychosemantics' [MIT 1993], p.133
The
16 ideas
with the same theme
[knowledge that arise from within the mind]:
5052
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When Gentiles follow the law, they must have the law written in their hearts
[Paul]
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22169
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Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason
[Aquinas]
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3630
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Our thinking about external things doesn't disprove the existence of innate ideas
[Descartes]
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24022
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Our souls possess divine seeds of knowledge, which can bear spontaneous fruit
[Descartes]
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7570
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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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12472
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If the only test of innateness is knowing, then all of our knowledge is innate
[Locke]
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7709
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A proposition can't be in the mind if we aren't conscious of it
[Locke]
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4018
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Innate ideas were followed up with innate doctrines, which stopped reasoning and made social control possible
[Locke]
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12929
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All of our thoughts come from within the soul, and not from the senses
[Leibniz]
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12933
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Arithmetic and geometry are implicitly innate, awaiting revelation
[Leibniz]
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12991
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Children learn language fast, with little instruction and few definitions
[Leibniz]
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21081
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We are equipped with the a priori intuitions needed for the concept of right
[Kant]
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14774
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Innate truths are very uncertain and full of error, so they certainly have exceptions
[Peirce]
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2990
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Contrary to commonsense, most of what is in the mind seems to be unlearned
[Fodor]
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3008
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Evolution suggests that innate knowledge of human psychology would be beneficial
[Fodor]
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3009
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Sticklebacks have an innate idea that red things are rivals
[Fodor]
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