Descartes' Innate Ideas

Kant Studien 76 (1-4):363-384 (1985)
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A careful examination of descartes' works shows that innate ideas are not born with the mind, But are generated by (i.E., Born within) the mind. This is descartes' way of talking about empirical concept formation, As well as what the mind can infer from these concepts. Particular examples are examined to provide the material and formal conditions for identifying innate ideas. Descartes forces the transition from medieval to very modern epistemology

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10.1515/kant.1985.76.1-4.363

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