The Early Modern Debate
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II. Focus on Innateness: a. Central issue: the relation of the mental items in question and experience. b. Broadly construed, how are mental items tied to experience? i. Are all relevant mental items derived from experience? That is, do all relevant mental items depend on experience? ii. Empiricist: All relevant mental items are derived from (depend on) experience. c. Notions of ‘Dependence’ i. Causal dependence: are the mental items in question causally dependent on experience? That is, is experience causally required for the mental items in question? Or do some of the mental items in question not require experience as part of their causal makeup? ii. Explanatory dependence: are all of the relevant features of the mental items in question explained or explicable by episodes or features of our experience? A. The representational nature of our ideas (the ‘objective reality’ of our ideas, in Cartesian terms) B. the necessity of certain truths C. the universality of certain concepts
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