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innate ideas
innate ideas Innate ideas are ideas or principles treated as belonging to the person by nature rather than being gained from personal experience.
Innate ideas are ideas or principles treated as belonging to the person by nature rather than being gained from personal experience. Historically, the term covered debates about whether people are born with actual thoughts, or instead with built-in forms or tendencies of mind that organize experience; in later discussion, this shifted toward native mental functions rather than a stock of fully formed ideas.