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en-wikipedia-org-2246		Innatism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4149	469	59	Innatism is a philosophical and epistemological doctrine that holds that the mind is born with ideas/knowledge, and that therefore the mind is not a "blank slate" at birth. In philosophy and psychology, an innate idea is a concept or item of knowledge which is said to be universal to all humanity—that is, something people are born with rather than something people have learned through experience. Other philosophers, most notably the empiricists, were critical of the theory and denied the existence of any innate ideas, saying all human knowledge was founded on experience, rather than a priori reasoning. Chomsky states that the ability to learn how to properly construct sentences or know which sentences are grammatically incorrect is an ability gained from innate knowledge.[3] Noam Chomsky cites as evidence for this theory, the apparent invariability, according to his views, of human languages at a fundamental level.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2246.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2246.txt