Innate knowledge

Question	Answer
Chomsky	A modern Philosopher / Linguist who believes that we are born with the innate potential to learn language.
Descartes	Rationalist philosopher who believed he could prove his own and Gods existence without experience
David Hume	An Empiricist philosopher from the 18th century who held that we can only know things through experience
Empiricism	The philosophical view that all knowledge comes from and is justified by experience. (philosophers with this view believe we are born tabula rasa and with no innate knowledge)
' I think therefore I am'	this term is how Descartes proved that we have innate knowledge of the fact that we exist.
John Locke	An Empiricist who tried to show that humans do not have innate knowledge by defining it as 'knowledge we have and are aware of from birth' which is basically impossible
Kowledge	There are 3 different types of this: Propositional acquaintance practical
Nativism	A specific type of innatism which holds that innate knowledge is 'Knowledge the content of which is not gained from experience'
Plato	An Ancient Greek Philosopher who believed that we have innate knowledge which helps us to make sense of the world. he called innate knowledge ' The Realm of the Forms'
Rationalism	The view that humans do have some innate knowledge
Realm of the Forms	This is a transcendental world which we know to exist but cannot experience. It is how Plato explains Innate knowledge

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	Created by Tjiye Linton about 10 years ago