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Reason (Empiricism (Locke against innatism (P1: If innate knowledge exists…
Reason
Empiricism
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Locke against innatism
P1: If innate knowledge exists, it is universal
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Evolution
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Acquire concepts from experience, and then come to know truths
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Tabula rasa
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Throughout our lives, we gain ideas from two sources:
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Innatism
Plato's argument
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Slave boy answers correctly, despite being uneducated
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Boy did not gain knowledge, so must have recovered from mind
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Definition
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Could be God, or in-built instincts from evolution
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Locke's rejection
Newborn babies do not have complex concepts (They do, but i's implicit and need triggering)
The concept GOD is not universal, societies can be atheist (People do have the concept GOD, but they may deny it or keep it implicit)
The only way for a concept to be unconciously part of the mind is through memory (We are predisposed to form concepts)
Rationalism
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Definition
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Plato, Descartes, Leibniz
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Key terms
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Proposition
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Synthetic
Not necessarily true of false, depends on facts
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