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Single Idea 6650
[filed under theme 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts
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Full Idea
Fodor has recently changed his mind about the innateness of concepts, which he formerly championed.
Gist of Idea
Fodor is now less keen on the innateness of concepts
Source
report of Jerry A. Fodor (Concepts:where cogn.science went wrong [1998]) by E.J. Lowe - Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind Ch.7 n25
Book Ref
Lowe,E.J.: 'Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind' [CUP 2000], p.188
A Reaction
There is some sensible middle road to be charted here. We presumably do not have an innate idea of a screwdriver, but there are plenty of basic concepts in logic and perception that are plausibly thought of as innate.
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[concepts as innate or native ingredients of minds]:
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3631
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A blind man may still contain the idea of colour
[Descartes]
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2273
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The ideas of God and of my self are innate in me
[Descartes]
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2285
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I can think of innumerable shapes I have never experienced
[Descartes]
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2286
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The idea of a supremely perfect being is within me, like the basic concepts of mathematics
[Descartes]
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2601
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Qualia must be innate, because physical motions do not contain them
[Descartes]
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2600
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The mind's innate ideas are part of its capacity for thought
[Descartes]
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12471
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Innate ideas are nothing, if they are in the mind but we are unaware of them
[Locke]
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8100
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Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from?
[Joubert]
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6649
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Chomsky now says concepts are basically innate, as well as syntax
[Chomsky, by Lowe]
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6650
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Fodor is now less keen on the innateness of concepts
[Fodor, by Lowe]
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2492
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Experience can't explain itself; the concepts needed must originate outside experience
[Fodor]
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11143
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If concept-learning is hypothesis-testing, that needs innate concepts to get started
[Fodor, by Margolis/Laurence]
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12662
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We have an innate capacity to form a concept, once we have grasped the stereotype
[Fodor]
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4997
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It seems unlikely that most concepts are innate, if a theory must be understood to grasp them
[Kirk,R]
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18592
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The concepts OBJECT or AGENT may be innate
[Machery]
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