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What is innatism?

What is innatism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (philosophy) The view that the mind is born with certain ideas or knowledge, as opposed to the idea of the "blank slate" or tabula rasa.
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One might, for instance, try to use contrasts to illuminate Cartesian innatism and its motivations.
When children are in the process of acquiring their first language, these are some pieces of evidence that may support innatism.
To Hazlitt, any trace of non-empirical argument about the nature of knowledge smacks of innatism, and this applies to Kant's account of synthesis a priori.
Crude innatism, sometimes gussied up as human nature, is his Archimedean rock.
In Britain, John Locke reacted against the innatism of Cartesian epistemology, but retained a theory of ideas.

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