Innateness

There have been various arguments as to whether leaders are born and they emerge out of a process of making. None of the factional stands seems to be faulty, but several things actually have to fit together for the possibility of an emergent leader.

Keywords: Development, Leadership, Innatism, Behaviourism

Sollecitato da alcuni amici che non sono specialisti in linguistica, propongo una discussione dell'argomento chomskyano della povertà di stimolo (sezioni 1–3 dell'articolo). Inoltre, si offre una panoramica del dibattito su questo tema (sezioni 4–7).

В статье рассматривается популярный аргумент нативистов против позиции
эмпиризма – аргумент от бедности стимула. Анализируется наиболее сильное
критическое замечание против аргумента от бедности стимула – аргумент
карри. В результате критического рассмотрения дискуссии о бедности стимула
делается вывод о том, что аргумент карри является достаточно убедительным.

The innate knowledge problem is a classical problem in philosophy, which has been known since the classical antiquity. Plato in his dialogues Meno and Phaedo formulated the doctrine of innate ideas and proposed an early version of the poverty of the stimulus argument, which is the most frequently used argument in innate knowledge debates. In the history of philosophy there was also an opposite view. This approach is often associated with J. Locke’s philosophy. Locke thought that all our knowledge about the world is a product of the universal learning mechanisms whose functioning is based on perception. The question about the presence of innate ideas in the human mind still remains relevant. New findings in cognitive science and neurosciences and also some recent arguments from philosophers contribute to the contemporary discussion between the spokesmen of the rival approaches to this problem. The paper presents the investigation of one of the approaches to solving the problem of inn...

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The influence of innate matters on religious knowledge is one of the important topics in the study of innate matters and religious knowledge. In this article, we try to show the position of innate matters in religion, and their effect on religious knowledge. In order to get to this goal, we first discussed the concepts and explained the basic terms used in this topic, besides supplementary topics related to these concepts. After that, we explained our viewpoint on innate matters and general topics relevant. Then, we discussed the impact of innate matters on religious knowledge in an analytical, rational approach. However, in order to show the necessary introductions or to support the content of the study, we, sometimes, made use of quotations. In this study, we have got to some results that knowledge knowledge by presence of God and knowledge of religion-in the points that can be proved-can only be achieved through innate knowledge. We have also got that innate sciences and tendencies related to religious teachings can play the most important role in having faith in religion and in religious beliefs, acting according to religion, and reaching ethical perfection that is religiously recommended. Keywords: religious knowledge, religious teachings, innate matters, the verse of covenant, the verse of innateness, knowledge by presence, knowledge by acquisition.

I object to eliminativism about innateness and André Ariew’s identification of innateness with canalization, and I propose a new treatment of innateness. I first argue that the concept of innateness is serving a valuable function in a diverse set of research contexts, and in these contexts, claims about innateness are best understood as claims about the insensitivity of the appearance of a trait to certain variations in the environment. I then argue that innateness claims, like claims about canalization, should be explicitly relativized to the specific range of environmental variations of interest to the scientist. My account characterizes an important way in which scientists are employing the concept and offers a way for scientists to carry on using the concept in their research while minimizing confusion and miscommunication. There is a fruitful research program, I claim, in which scientists employ the concept of innateness to help distinguish environmental factors of interest that have a causal influence on the appearance of a trait from those that do not.