Chapter 4 No.4

Locke and Leibniz.-Innate Ideas.

Necessity of Preliminary Account of Leibniz's Philosophy 66

Locke's Empiricism 67

Leibniz's Comments upon Locke 69

The Controversies of Leibniz 72

The Essay on the Human Understanding 73

Locke's Denial of Innate Ideas 75

Depending upon

(1) His Mechanical Conception of Innate Ideas 77

Leibniz undermines this by substituting an Organic Conception 80

And upon

(2) His Mechanical Conception of Consciousness 84

Leibniz refutes this by his Theory of Unconscious Intelligence 85