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Addressing the question of how Descartes thinks innate ideas are known, the author shows that for Descartes, thinkers have explicit knowledge of their innate ideas.
This book offers the first sustained treatment of Descartes' conception of innateness. The concept of innateness is central to Descartes' epistemology; the Meditations display a new, non-Aristotelian method of acquiring knowledge by attending properly to our innate ideas. Yet un…