Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Locke
In Locke's book he agrues against the belief of innate principles and universal consent. He agrued that there are no universally accepted ideas. He also believes that we have little reason to think that new born infants bring many ideas into the world and that there is no evidence of any settled ideas in them. Like he says they don't show ideas of answering conditions which make up some universal propositions that value innate ideas, therefore they are not innate because their ideas are not innate.
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I agree with you that Loke says that new infants bring many ideas into the world but that we have no evisence that there are any ideas in them. But can this be ture? Can a new infant know all that we know as adults?
I see what your saying but I personally think Locke may be wrong here. I mean how do explain the fact that babies know how to breast feed? Or how do they know how to cry in order to get the parents attention when they are uncomfortable?
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