ankind give an universal assent.” Locke tells us all ideas come from sensation and reflection. You receive sense data then you reflect on it and then you begin to perceive it. Locke says you’re not born with innate ideas but is received through the senses and experience. Locke makes a statement in Book II about experience, which says, “In that all our Knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself.”In conclusion, these two philosophers have different ideas on where innate ideas come from. What are we suppose to believe? Descartes theory that innate ideas come from God, and that God instills these ideas on us at birth. Also, do we think that the idea of God is an innate idea? Or do we take Locke’s theory that you aren’t born with the idea it’s received through your senses and experiences? Your mind furnishes these ideas. I would like to think we weren’t all idiots and weren’t a blank tablet, but only time will tell. These two extremely different ideas show that this argument is far from over, and maybe Descartes and Locke now know the truth resting in their graves....
