Assess the view that we have no innate knowledge.

Empiricism-
- Locke's definition of innate knowledge: tabula rasa, blank slate from birth, if knowledge is innate then it is universal -> clear that it isn't universal (children + idiots)
Hume: knowledge is derived from sense experience - divided into impressions (what we really see) + ideas (memories of what we've seen) - ideas are a type of concept
- Hume: simple + complex ideas -> idea of god isn't innate -> comes from our knowledge of simple ideas (powerful, loving, wise) to form the complex idea of god
- HOWEVER criticise Locke's definition of 'innate' -> nativism is generally more accepted -> sense experience triggers innate concepts -> to support: Chomsky (grammar is innate) + study of animal behaviour (bird songs seem to be innate)  + children learning how to speak at around 18 months old (exposure to stimuli = knowledge)
- Plato's theory of the forms: innate knowledge derived from our soul's experience of the forms in a past life,