Essays Tagged: "Innatism"

Innate Knowledge

(3 pages) 36 0 3.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Knowledge Innatism

xamples such as the cogito - I am a thinking thing -, maths and logical truths to support knowledge innatism. Descartes argues that through the mind alone, we can know clear and distinct ideas. They a ... ibniz uses the example of God and the theory that God implanted knowledge into our minds to support innatism. He says that because necessary truths are innate and God necessarily exists and created th ...

(2 pages) 0 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy