1. Denying the possibility of innate ideas , he asserted that morality comes by revelation. 2. Philosophically, the debate over innate ideas is central to the conflict between epistemologies. 3. "He has a very innate idea of what's going on on the court. 4. In Plato's philosophy, innate ideas are revealed through the Socratic Method of investigation. 5. This excludes all possibility of innate ideas or any faculty akin to intuitive reason. 6. The main antagonist to the concept of innate ideas is John Locke, a contemporary of Leibniz. 7. Plato believed that we possess innate ideas that precede any knowledge that we gain through experience. 8. He defended innate ideas , against John Locke's " Essay Concerning Human Understanding ", in another work from 1697. 9. Book I of the " Essay " is Locke's attempt to refute the rationalist notion of innate ideas . 10. He does not similarly challenge a conceptualist model which construes God's knowledge along the lines of innate ideas .
