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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER III
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But such an assent upon hearing, no more proves the IDEAS to be innate, than it does that one born blind (with cataracts which will be couched to-morrow) had the innate ideas of the sun, or light, or saffron, or yellow; because, when his sight is cleared, he will certainly assent to this proposition, "That the sun is lucid, or that saffron is yellow." And therefore, if such an assent upon hearing cannot prove the ideas innate, it can much less the PROPOSITIONS made up of those ideas.

If they have any innate ideas, I would be glad to be told what, and how many, they are.
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No innate Ideas in the Memory.
To which let me add: if there be any innate ideas, any ideas in the mind which the mind does not actually think on, they must be lodged in the memory; and from thence must be brought into view by remembrance; i.

e.
must be known, when they are remembered, to have been perceptions in the mind before; unless remembrance can be without remembrance.

For, to remember is to perceive anything with memory, or with a consciousness that it was perceived or known before.


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