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    It is not the case that An innate idea is not one that is always before the mind, but one that the mind has the faculty to summon

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    • 1.Leibniz's own defense of innateness in the Nouveaux Essais requires that innate ideas carry necessary, a priori warrant—not merely summoning capacity.
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    • 2.An idea that requires experiential triggers to be summoned, as Descartes concedes with sensory occasions, exhibits contingent rather than innate origin.
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    • 3.Thus the faculty criterion, without an additional necessity condition, fails to demarcate genuinely innate ideas from sophisticated associative recall.
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    • 1.Locke argues that if 'faculty to summon' suffices for innateness, then all learnable truths become innate, collapsing the distinction entirely.
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    • 2.A faculty-based criterion cannot distinguish innate ideas from empirically acquired dispositions, since both involve latent cognitive capacities.
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    • 1.If innate ideas were those always before the mind, no idea would qualify as innate
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    • 2.We have within ourselves the faculty of summoning up certain ideas
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