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Single Idea 7709
[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge
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Full Idea
No proposition can be said to be in the mind, which it never yet knew, which it was never yet conscious of.
Gist of Idea
A proposition can't be in the mind if we aren't conscious of it
Source
John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 1.02.05)
Book Ref
Locke,John: 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding', ed/tr. Nidditch,P.H. [OUP 1979], p.50
A Reaction
This raises an interesting question. If we believe in the influence of the unconscious, we will have to talk of unconscious beliefs which affect our behaviour. We certainly all have beliefs of which we are not conscious. "Elvis had two feet".
The
16 ideas
with the same theme
[knowledge that arise from within the mind]:
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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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