Philosophy by Fearn Nicholas

Author:Fearn, Nicholas [Fearn, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848872554
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Published: 2012-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

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innate ideas

If the soul resembles blank tablets, truth would be in us as the figure of Hercules is in the marble, when the marble is wholly indifferent to the reception of this figure or some other. But if there were veins in the block which would indicate the figure of Hercules rather than other figures, this block would be more determined thereto, and Hercules would be in it as in some sense innate, although it would be needful to labour to discover these veins, to clear them by polishing, and by cutting away what prevents them from appearing. Thus, it is that ideas and truths are for us innate, as inclinations, dispositions, habits, or natural potentialities, and not as actions, although these potentialities are always accompanied by some actions, often insensible, which correspond to them.

G. Leibniz

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