John Locke's Argument Against Innate Ideas
John Locke’s main argument against innate ideas is that if there are innate ideas, they should be shared by anyone or everyone. He states that everything you may know you have learned through the experience of learning. Innate ideas is knowledge you acquired without any learning or experience. He says that no one can say something that he/she knows without the experience of learning it. Therefore there is no evidence that innate ideas exist. Locke claims that we are born with a "blank slate" meaning that we aren’t born with pre-existing ideas about the nature of reality. For Locke ideas and knowledge come to us through our experience and the knowledge we gain through this gives us our ideas about reality. Many might argue that the ideas of