The question of " innate ideas " or " instincts " were of some importance in the discussion of free will in moral philosophy.
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However, the suggestion that one and another will always equal two require an innate idea, as that would be a suggestion of things unwitnessed.
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This can be illustrated in terms of the doctrines of innate ideas, " abstract ideas ", as well as " simple ideas versus complex ideas ".
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Keller was a vehicle for the study of the Platonic notion of innate ideas, that ideas, and language, are part of the deep structures of the brain.
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Leibniz would suggest that this is simply because the person in question has not become aware of the innate idea, not because they do not possess it.
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However, unlike Descartes, whose understanding of the mental depended on an inward reasoning that was autonomous from the surrounding world, Locke rejected the possibility of innate ideas.
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Lastly, innate ideas, such as our ideas of perfection, are those ideas we have as a result of mental processes that are beyond what experience can directly or indirectly provide.
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Leibniz argues that such truisms are universally assented to ( acknowledged by all to be true ); this being the case, it must be due to their status as innate ideas.
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In the prosecution of this method he expressly declines to have recourse to what he calls " the short and easy expedient of the innate ideas of the laws of nature.
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However, more correctly, innatism refers to the philosophy of Plato and Descartes, who assumed that a God or a similar being or process placed innate ideas and principles in the human mind.
