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    A faculty-based criterion cannot distinguish innate ideas... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→An innate idea is not one that is always before the mind, but one that the mind has the faculty to summon

    A faculty-based criterion cannot distinguish innate ideas from empirically acquired dispositions, since both involve latent cognitive capacities.

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    • 1.Both innate ideas and empirically acquired dispositions manifest as potential capacities that require activation through experience or use.
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    • 2.A faculty criterion observes only the structural capacity itself, not its origin, making historical genesis undetectable by present cognitive structure.
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    • 3.Latency is the defining feature of dispositions generally; distinguishing by latency alone cannot separate innate from acquired sources.
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    • 1.Innate ideas exhibit universal, context-independent accessibility across humans; empirically acquired dispositions show variable acquisition patterns.
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    • 2.The developmental timeline differs crucially: innate capacities emerge without prerequisite learning; acquired dispositions require prior experience.
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    • 3.Neuroscientific evidence reveals distinct neural architectures for hardwired versus learned capacities, refuting indistinguishability at the faculty level.
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