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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'New Essays on Human Understanding' and 'Rules for the Direction of the Mind'

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
24025 Clear and distinct truths must be known all at once (unlike deductions) [Descartes]
21253 Descartes needs to demonstrate how other people can attain his clear and distinct conceptions [Leibniz]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge
12933 Arithmetic and geometry are implicitly innate, awaiting revelation [Leibniz]
12991 Children learn language fast, with little instruction and few definitions [Leibniz]
24022 Our souls possess divine seeds of knowledge, which can bear spontaneous fruit [Descartes]
12929 All of our thoughts come from within the soul, and not from the senses [Leibniz]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / c. Tabula rasa
12940 What is left of the 'blank page' if you remove the ideas? [Leibniz]