Innate potentialities require experience to become knowledge

How the notion of innatism can work?


Research Paper (undergraduate), 2012

10 Pages, Grade: 69


Abstract or Introduction

Does our notion of knowledge necessitate that it becomes manifest firstly in our thinking and then in our actions or can it on the contrary exist in a latent, hidden way within us and still be considered knowledge? Given the exceeding ambiguity behind the term knowledge we will need in the first place a clear definition of knowledge that should in turn enable us to bring focus to our investigation on the whole. In the course of this work, we will take a look at the main arguments Plato and Leibniz put forward in this regard, particularly focusing on their varying concept of innate knowledge and its relation to experience and our capacity to reason. In what will follow, I shall argue that even if we are able to identify certain instances of pre- existing knowledge or understanding, it will anyway remain inextricably connected to the experiences we make in our environment. Thereby, there must be a coincidence of innate capacities and certain, outer circumstances for knowledge to emerge and become visible. Otherwise, the presence of knowledge isn't at any rate recognizable in the real world, but exists in an inactivated, hidden mode without the respective person even becoming conscious of its existence.

Details

Title
Innate potentialities require experience to become knowledge
Subtitle
How the notion of innatism can work?
College
University of Essex  (Department of Philosophy)
Grade
69
Author
Year
2012
Pages
10
Catalog Number
V200024
ISBN (eBook)
9783656262725
ISBN (Book)
9783656263685
File size
495 KB
Language
English
Keywords
innatism, experience, a priori, a posteriori, ideas, notions, preconception, knowledge, Plato, Leibniz
Quote paper
Alexander Borodin (Author), 2012, Innate potentialities require experience to become knowledge , Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/200024

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