Full Idea
I have never written or taken the view that the mind requires innate ideas which are something distinct from its own faculty of thinking.
Gist of Idea
The mind's innate ideas are part of its capacity for thought
Source
René Descartes (Comments on a Certain Broadsheet [1644], p.365)
Book Reference
'The Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Beakley,B /Ludlow P [MIT 1992], p.365