You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who are at one

point said on doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 257 is, something like, are there some ideas that we're just

born with and we don't have to learn them and can be served as a foundation for the rest

of our knowledge?

And we're reading book one of John Locke's, an essay concerning human understanding from

1689.

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This is Mark Linson-Mire, universally consented to in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, impossibly being and not being in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes All One interrogating children and idiots in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey removing the rubbish from choking my storm drain in Middleton, Wisconsin.

Man, oh man.

Mr. Johnny Locke, we skipped this one early on.

We went straight from Plato, recollection theory of knowledge.

There is stuff that we, when we're doing math problems, we just realize, I guess we knew

this already.

I guess even an uneducated slave boy in the Meno, for instance, can find that he has geometrical

knowledge and skip right to hum that the only thing we know is what we've experienced.

And we missed a few links.

And since we've covered Descartes in much more detail recently in the last year than

we did at the very beginning of this podcast 11 years ago, this seemed like a good time

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