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1 What are Locke’s main arguments against the doctrine of innate knowledge? Do you find them compelling?

2 ‘There is nothing more commonly taken for granted than that there are certain principles … universally agreed upon by all mankind’ (Locke). Examine Locke’s criticisms of the argument for innate ideas based on universal consent.

3 Locke suggests that it is ‘near a contradiction to say that there are truths imprinted on the soul which it perceives or understands not’. Is the notion of ideas which the soul does not perceive really senseless?