Russell (1961: 589):
Locke may be regarded as the founder of empiricism, which is the doctrine that all our knowledge (with the possible exception of logic and mathematics) is derived from experience. Accordingly, the first book of the Essay is concerned in arguing, as against Plato, Descartes and the scholastics, that there are no innate ideas or principles. In the second book he sets out to show, in detail, how experience gives rise to various kinds of ideas.
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The innateness hypothesis of Chomskyan Formal Linguistics holds that at least some knowledge about language exists in humans at birth.
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