Ideas or concepts that we allegedly acquire or possess prior to experience can be called a priori (literally, ‘from beforehand’).
Sometimes, however, it is claimed that they are innate; that is, we have them from birth.
This is a stronger claim, since we might well (on a weaker view) acquire an idea independently of experiencing that idea, but not independently of having built up a stock of other ideas from experience.
Two main issues therefore concern the sense, if any, in which we can already possess such ideas at birth, and what is to count as an idea in this context.
John Locke’s (1632-1704) vigorous attack on innate ideas focuses on the first idea, while in recent decades the American linguist AVRAM NOAM CHOMSKY (1928- ) has treated the second issue in terms of our innate knowledge of certain grammatical structures.
Belief in innate ideas is one form of nativism.
Source:
S Stich, ed., Innate Ideas (1975)
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Innate Ideas
- 2.2 Beyond Me: Dissecting Ego To Find The Innate Love At Humanity's Core/ A New Psychology As Philosophy
- 2.3 Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
- 2.4 Get Your Mind On Your People: Becoming the Organization Everyone Wants to Work For
- 2.5 365 Drawing Ideas for Kids: a blank book of fun prompts
- 2.6 Wake Up, Humans!: The Chiropractic Principle That Restores the Body’s Innate Healing Power, Transforms Lives, and Unlocks Human Purpose
- 2.7 Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind
- 2.8 Transcending the Maya Matrix: Using the Seven simple Steps: Our Innate Guide to Co-Creation & Self-Realization
- 2.9 Legacy
- 2.10 First, Break All The Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
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Innate Ideas
- English (Publication Language)
- 222 Pages - 06/01/1975 (Publication Date) - University of California Press (Publisher)
Beyond Me: Dissecting Ego To Find The Innate Love At Humanity's Core/ A New Psychology As Philosophy
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- English (Publication Language)
- 600 Pages - 04/19/2019 (Publication Date) - Socrates, Emerson & Co. (Publisher)
Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Mitchell, Kevin J. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 304 Pages - 10/16/2018 (Publication Date) - Princeton University Press (Publisher)
Get Your Mind On Your People: Becoming the Organization Everyone Wants to Work For
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- English (Publication Language)
- 250 Pages - 10/13/2017 (Publication Date) - Transcendent Publishing (Publisher)
365 Drawing Ideas for Kids: a blank book of fun prompts
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- English (Publication Language)
- 94 Pages - 01/12/2020 (Publication Date) - Independently published (Publisher)
Wake Up, Humans!: The Chiropractic Principle That Restores the Body’s Innate Healing Power, Transforms Lives, and Unlocks Human Purpose
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- English (Publication Language)
- 194 Pages - 03/13/2018 (Publication Date) - Bowker (Publisher)
Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind
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- English (Publication Language)
- 188 Pages - 04/30/2012 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
Transcending the Maya Matrix: Using the Seven simple Steps: Our Innate Guide to Co-Creation & Self-Realization
- Makram, Omar M (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 158 Pages - 02/22/2018 (Publication Date) - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (Publisher)
Legacy
- Legacy
- Kerr, James (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 224 Pages - 11/07/2013 (Publication Date) - Constable & Robinson (Publisher)
First, Break All The Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
- Perseus-Gallup Press
- Hardcover Book
- Marcus Buckingham (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 368 Pages - 05/03/2016 (Publication Date) - Gallup Press (Publisher)
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