KnowraInnate ideasLinked fromLinked fromThe 10 pages that link to Innate ideas, each with the reason it gives.All 10Related 4Compared with 6John LockeCompared with: Locke’s rejection of innate ideas opens his account of how knowledge develops.René DescartesRelated: Descartes argues that some ideas, including the idea of God, are innate.EmpiricismCompared with: Their existence directly challenges the empiricist claim that ideas originate in experience.RationalismRelated: The doctrine offers one explanation for how the mind can possess knowledge beyond sensory input.Association of IdeasCompared with: Hume’s empiricism explains the materials of association through experience rather than innate content.CartesianismRelated: Descartes treats some ideas as native to the mind and central to knowledge.Tabula rasaCompared with: Their existence directly challenges the claim that experience supplies all mental contents.Modern philosophyRelated: Rationalists invoked them to explain knowledge that seemed unavailable from sensation alone.An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingCompared with: Locke’s opening book argues against this rival account of the mind’s contents.Peripatetic axiomCompared with: Their existence directly challenges the axiom’s claim about the origins of intellectual content.