Innate Ideas
the term generally supposed to correspond to the koinai ennoiai of the Stoics-"general notions developed in the course of nature in all men"-though the earlier teachers of that school regarded these ideas as the natural outgrowth of perceptions, not as innate. On the Continent the doctrine of innate ideas was revived by Descartes, who held that the notion of things, truth, and thought were naturally common to all men. The doctrine will be found in the "Treatise on Truth" of Lord Herbert of Cherbury. On the opposite side, Locke ("Human Understanding," book i.).