Rationalism

Descartes:

• We can establish  the mind, the physical world and God through a priori reasoning.
• Attacks sense experience through lack of trust in senses
• Can only know we exist
• God is not a deceiver

Plato:

• Forms (perfect idea)
• Example: not knowing equal through experience, only almost equal
• Experience forms before this world
• A type of innate idea
• 'Almost equal' contains 'equal'
• Nietzsche: based on the desire to see good and bad as opposites

Chomsky:

• Innate knowledge of language
• Poverty of stimulus
• Know the formation of grammar- innate