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Innate knowledge
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- 1ChomskyA modern Philosopher / Linguist who believes that we are born with the innate potential to learn language.
- 2DescartesRationalist philosopher who believed he could prove his own and Gods existence without experience
- 3David HumeAn Empiricist philosopher from the 18th century who held that we can only know things through experience
- 4EmpiricismThe 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)
- 5' I think therefore I am'this term is how Descartes proved that we have innate knowledge of the fact that we exist.
- 6John LockeAn 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
- 7KowledgeThere are 3 different types of this:
Propositional
acquaintance
practical - 8NativismA specific type of innatism which holds that innate knowledge is 'Knowledge the content of which is not gained from experience'
- 9PlatoAn 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'
- 10RationalismThe view that humans do have some innate knowledge
- 11Realm of the FormsThis is a transcendental world which we know to exist but cannot experience. It is how Plato explains Innate knowledge
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- A Levels Philosophy FlashCards sobre Innate knowledge , criado por Tjiye Linton em 03-02-2014.
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