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  • noun philosophy A supporter of innatism.

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innate +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Certainly the broad or innatist reading must allow for this possibility, since Forms are regarded as latent in one's mind.

    Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

  • This privileging of reference over meaning with respect to what a concept is lends credence to the broad or innatist interpretation of what it is to acquire or even to have a concept.

    Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

  • Like the other Cambridge Platonists Culverwell emphasises the freedom of the will and proposes an innatist epistemology, according to which the mind is furnished with ˜clear and indelible Principles™ and reason an ˜intellectual lamp™ placed in the soul by God to enable it to understand God's will promulgated in the law of nature.

    The Cambridge Platonists Hutton, Sarah 2007

  • The anonymous author, Rev. John Gay, em - ployed Locke's conception in opposition to the innatist theory of the origin of moral sentiments and disinter - ested affections advocated by Francis Hutcheson.

    ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS ROBERT M. YOUNG 1968

  • Not having any innatist status in the Essay concerning Human

    IDEA OF GOD, 1400-1800 JAMES COLLINS 1968

  • As I pointed out the other day, leftist saint Noam Chomsky has been advocating an innatist approach to linguistics for decades, and Marc Hauser has a

    One Cʘsmos 2010

  • This neuroconstructivist account of 'human nature' places no limit on its variation, unlike the innatist assumptions in modularity theory.

    Neuroanthropology 2008

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