Wrangling about Innate Ideas? Reflections on Locke and Cudworth

Locke contended that knowledge is learned from experience, taught from without rather than innately known from within. The notion of innate ideas has since been seen by many as innately ridiculous, as a battle long ago waged and won in the first book of Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding....

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Main Author: Lyonhart, Jonathan David (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 3
Further subjects:B Epistemology
B early modern philosophy
B Ralph Cudworth
B Empiricism
B innate ideas
B John Locke
B Cambridge Platonism
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