Concept Empiricism


	Concept Empiricism
	Advantages P: no reliance on supernatural; E: doesn't require unproven God to put ideas into minds P: Locke; E: babies don't have innate concepts (what appears to be innate is from sense experience in womb/concept of God isn't innate/universal/concepts can only be part of the mind and not consciously aware of it if already experienced or sensed (neither new nor remembered) P: copy principle; E: complex ideas are combos of simple ideas from simple sense impressions; E: Hume P: Hume; E: seemingly "innate" concepts aren't innate; E: self - strand of feelings/experiences lumped together/causation - feeling of anticipation from seeing one thing to another bc we saw it in the past/morality - products of emotions + sentiments	Disadvantages P: infinite regress of ideas; E: possible to keep breaking down ideas but where do we stop?; E: horse's mane could be broken down into hairs, molecules etc P: concepts from sense experience; E: possible to have concepts that don't appear to come from sense experience; E: Hume's missing shade of blue P: innate structures; E: we learn some things so quickly there must be some kind of internal structures; E: Chomsky's deep grammar + Kant's conceptual scaffolding + Condillac's statue (causation - how would we make sense of the world otherwise?)
	Evaluation Seemingly strong but we appear to have some innate concepts without sense experience

P: no reliance on supernatural; E: doesn't require unproven God to put ideas into minds
P: Locke; E: babies don't have innate concepts (what appears to be innate is from sense experience in womb/concept of God isn't innate/universal/concepts can only be part of the mind and not consciously aware of it if already experienced or sensed (neither new nor remembered)
P: copy principle; E: complex ideas are combos of simple ideas from simple sense impressions; E: Hume
P: Hume; E: seemingly "innate" concepts aren't innate; E: self - strand of feelings/experiences lumped together/causation - feeling of anticipation from seeing one thing to another bc we saw it in the past/morality - products of emotions + sentiments

P: infinite regress of ideas; E: possible to keep breaking down ideas but where do we stop?; E: horse's mane could be broken down into hairs, molecules etc
P: concepts from sense experience; E: possible to have concepts that don't appear to come from sense experience; E: Hume's missing shade of blue
P: innate structures; E: we learn some things so quickly there must be some kind of internal structures; E: Chomsky's deep grammar + Kant's conceptual scaffolding + Condillac's statue (causation - how would we make sense of the world otherwise?)

Seemingly strong but we appear to have some innate concepts without sense experience

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