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A 4 page paper seeking to distinguish between knowledge and belief. Plato is the first of the philosophers to offer the view that there is really nothing new, insisting that the process we call “learning” in reality is nothing more than mere recollection. In the Platonic view, belief can be characterized as a precursor to knowledge, and the basis on which the individual focuses the recollection that reveals the knowledge that already exists within him. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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innate knowledge tend to be focused on linguistics. One group holds that we do have innate knowledge, perhaps in many areas but at least in our ability to speak.
Another takes the stance of John Locke and Galileo, who maintained that the senses hold the only route to acquiring knowledge. Plato and Descartes, however, hold that there
are bits of knowledge which each human child is born already possessing. Nature vs. Nurture We have long heard that babies enter the
world essentially as blank slates, on which all that eventually makes them individuals will be written in the course of their lives. Even though Descartes questions reality and what
constitutes that quality, he is still certain that there is knowledge resident in each newborn baby. Plato is the first of the philosophers
to offer the view that there is really nothing new, insisting that the process we call "learning" in reality is nothing more than mere recollection (Adamson). While Descartes came
to agree with Plato many centuries later, Descartes contemporary John Locke and others vehemently disagreed that knowledge is innate within individuals. Not only did Locke disagree with the possibility
of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mind] to be furnished? ... Whence has it all
the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience" (in Sampson). Sampson (2003) disagrees with the possibility
and theory of the existence of innate knowledge. Even so, he admits that the notion is an intriguing one, if based solely on mankinds creativity. While other of
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