Essay On Innate Knowledge

In this world we live in, it revolves around knowledge and wisdom. As humans, we always crave for something more—more about things we know, knowledge about things we don’t know about. Therefore, we dig deeper to know more about ourselves, don’t we?

Knowledge, as defined, is the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association. Every day that we face bears new experiences which we encounter for us to learn. If so, we can, therefore, assume that all of the knowledge we bear as of now are all obtained from all of our past daily experiences and this idea contrasts the idea of innate knowledge.

It is said that innate knowledge is the knowledge we have ever since we were born. Thus, this knowledge will only be discovered if something triggers it. As for example, a

In this example, the person has background knowledge about apples—how they look, what is their color, what is its shape, how does its skin look like. This example, we can relate this to reality. The idea of the apple is real based on how we see it.

We refer things as real if the things or ideas are perceivable through the senses. The stars we see at night, although intangible for the mean time, are real for they are seen. When we hear the chirping of birds during the day, we can say that it is real for we have heard it. The novel book you’re reading is real for you can hold it; however, its ideas and contents are unreal for they only exist in our minds.

Therefore, we can say that material things are real. Real in a sense that we can prove that an object is this for it has the attributes and characteristics of its own kind because, truly, an entity is classified according to its traits that are found similar in a class.

Material things are perceivable through our senses. They can be seen, touched, heard, felt against one’s skin, and tasted. They also occupy