Quote by Lee Braver

“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori, Leibniz ended…

— Lee Braver

“Tell me what you make of Locke, then, and his difference with Descartes." Vivian took the book from him and spread her small hand…

— Lisa Kleypas

“If the process fails at any point, the idea in question lacks cognitive content. When carried through successfully, however, it yields a ‘just definition’…

— David Hume

“Reason, Hume argued, doesn’t determine what we want but only how we obtain it.”

— Eric Weiner

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must…

— William Blake

“Origin of man now proved. Metaphysics must flourish. He who understand baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.”

— Charles Darwin

“The early Wittgenstein and the logical positivists that he inspired are often thought to have their roots in the philosophical investigations of René Descartes.9…

— Ray Kurzweil

“Generations of Humeans have… been misled into offering analyses of causation and of natural law that have been far too weak because they had…

— Anonymous

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

— Samuel Alexander

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were…

— Milan Kundera

“Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.”

— Charles Darwin

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of…

— Benjamin Franklin