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Acquired Savantism & Innate Ideas
One classic philosophical dispute is the battle over innate ideas. An innate idea, as the name suggests, is not acquired by experience but is somehow “built into” the mind. Philosophers who accept innate ideas differ about their nature and content. Leibniz, for example, sees God as the creator innate ideas that exist within the monads….
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Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life
“Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world.” We are each born with a wilderness of possibility within us. Who we become depends on how we tend to our inner garden — what qualities of character and spirit we cultivate to come abloom, what follies we…
