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satisfied. We feel we our is quenched., rcact successfully., satistied. We feel thirsty; we drink water, and our thirst is quenel IS, Food and water are actually perceived by us clearly and distine, react successfully. We are hu, countries, So they are real. To deduce, and they prompt fruitful actions., their reality from, We cannot spin out philosophy by merc reason without experiene, even at, idea of C, Those w, the innate idea of God and his veracity is absurdu, Some be, endowed, believe i, knowledge cannot I, be treated as innate or deduced fr., true, innate ideas. Philosophical knowledge is not. like mathematic, knowledge. Mathematical knowledge is abstract; it deals vá, abstractions and deduction from them. Points, lines and the EL, are not realities, but mere conceptual constructions or abstrac, ideas. The knowledge that is deduced from them is not concrete, But philosophy does not deal with abstractions or imaginary entitics, it ideals with real entities. It seeks to give a rational concept of the, realities as a whole by rational reflection on the facts of experience, So ir cannot condemn experience as illusory. The facts are given bv, experience, arganized by sciences and finally harmonized with one, ảnother, and reduced to a system by philsophy by rational reflec, tion. Philosophy cannot do without reason; nor can it do without, experience. It is criticism of life and experience. The doctrine of, innate ideas advocated by Descartes is not tenable. Locke severely, criticized Descartes's doctrine of innate ideas., the finit, God as v, believe i, outside ., idea of (, :, idea. Si, countries, be innate, Thir, would n, - of fire. B, ience. U, sun revol, Ail persq, Empiricism (Locke), innate no, Empiricism is a reaction against rationalism. John Locke, reyolts against Cartesian Rationalism, and propounds the doctrine, of empiricism, is his Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)., He citicizes Descartes's doctrine of innate ideas, and expounds the, doctrine of, principle, are affirn, -not innat, mo, which ar, empiricism., Locke's Criticism of the Theory of Innate Ideas-First, it, there are innate ideas, they must be present in, are not t, particular, is experie, is not bit, equally, all minds.