Nature of Knowledge

Ratioinalism- Synthetic truths can be known a priori

Empiricism- Synthetic truths can only be know a posteriori

Hume's Fork

Locke's argument against innatism (Tabula Rasa)

Descartes's waves of doubt

Trademark argument

The concept of God is not innate

Plato's slave boy- We have innate knowledge

Innate knowledge must be universal and something we are conscious of

All of our concepts come from experience

Some of our concepts are innate

Leibniz's argument that necessary truths must be innate

Concept empiricism

We don't have to be conscious of something to know it.

Descartes's wax and Plato's beauty

Concept innatism

Locke's theory- 'abstract general ideas'