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Innate: abilities, ideas, dispositions, which are not acquired in the course of a development, but are present in an organism from the outset. - In philosophy N. Chomsky and J. Locke are relevant authors on this topic._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.
Author
Concept
Summary/Quotes
Sources
Hartry Field on Innateness - Dictionary of Arguments
II 388
Rules/in the head/brain/Field: there may be rules that are "written in the head".
>Rules, >Language processing, >Information processing, >Language of thought, >Brain, >Brain/Brainstates, >Thinking, >Cognition.
Problem: when a rule is "written in the head", then a part of the brain must read them, and this in turn is controlled by rules. - These rules might be changeable.
>Regress._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals
indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate
the page number. The corresponding books
are indicated on the right hand side.
((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Field I
H. Field
Realism, Mathematics and Modality Oxford New York 1989
Field II
H. Field
Truth and the Absence of Fact Oxford New York 2001
Field III
H. Field
Science without numbers Princeton New Jersey 1980
Field IV
Hartry Field
"Realism and Relativism", The Journal of Philosophy, 76 (1982), pp. 553-67
In
Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994