10/10/02 John Locke's attack on innate ideas
First Argument
1. Idiots- these people don't have these beliefs and some never will
2. Uneducated(Indians) " "
3. Children " "
Second Argument
People disagree on many so called innate ideas, no one would be able to agree
Third Argument
Could be used by the tyrants to control the masses-Divine right of the kings

NAIVE REALISM VS. REPRESENTALIONALISM
Naive Realism or Direct Realism-things are as we perceive them. "Common Sense"
Arguments Against Naive Realism
1. We only perceive data from the narrow perspective of medium sized material objects, can't perceive on extreme micro or macro scale.
2. What we "see" is sometimes (always?) determined by socially arbitrarily produced beliefs
3. We only perceive a range of light, sound, smell-less than other animals in many cases
4. Some senses we lack all together- migratory birds flying home, bat's sonar
5. Our brains do a lot of interpreting sensory data- determines the content of consciousness

Representationalism- perceive objects indirectly thought "sense data" which we judge to come from as external world.