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Colin McGinn on Descartes on Innate Knowledge

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What Is Inherent Knowledge?

There's no need to go out and check it in the world by adding apples and pears together. So where does rene acart stand on questions about innate knowledge? decant think says a tremendous amount of innate knowledge, and of many different kinds. Descartes argues that we could only ever have ideas if god himself were the cause of them.

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