"If therefore children and idiots have souls, have minds, with those impressions upon them, they must unavoidably perceive them, and necessarily know and assent to those truths; which since they do not, it is evident that there are no such impressions."
When someone is mentally challenged, which I'm assuming that is what Locke meant by saying "idiot", they might have some innateness in them but they're capable of showing it because their mental disability. When a baby is drinking their bottle. They automatically know they have to suck for the milk to come out of the bottle. No one can teach them that. They just know and I think that is a form of innateness.
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Would it be correct to assume that a baby knows to suck on a bottle because it resembles a nipple? So isn't the idea of breast feeding what is innate?
I was thinking about that too Kimberly but then how do they know how to breast feed too? Is that innate? Because we can't teach them how to do that. I'm not sure.
I think a baby automatically knows what to feed on during that stage. It is just a instinct a baby has to go for the nipple and an example of what Locke is talking about.
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