| 1. | Denying the possibility of innate ideas, he asserted that morality comes by revelation.
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| 2. | Philosophically, the debate over innate ideas is central to the conflict between epistemologies.
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| 3. | "He has a very innate idea of what's going on on the court.
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| 4. | In Plato's philosophy, innate ideas are revealed through the Socratic Method of investigation.
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| 5. | This excludes all possibility of innate ideas or any faculty akin to intuitive reason.
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| 6. | The main antagonist to the concept of innate ideas is John Locke, a contemporary of Leibniz.
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| 7. | Plato believed that we possess innate ideas that precede any knowledge that we gain through experience.
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| 8. | He defended innate ideas, against John Locke's " Essay Concerning Human Understanding ", in another work from 1697.
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| 9. | He does not similarly challenge a conceptualist model which construes God's knowledge along the lines of innate ideas.
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| 10. | Book I of the " Essay " is Locke's attempt to refute the rationalist notion of innate ideas.
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