This excludes all possibility of innate ideas or any faculty akin to intuitive reason.
He would not even oppose the doctrine of innate ideas, because it looked with a friendly eye upon piety and morality.
Rachel didn't understand it all, but one thing that she did relate to was the innate ideas of right and wrong.
If they have any innate ideas, I would be glad to be told what, and how many, they are.
By this it may be tried whether there be any innate ideas in the mind before impression from sensation or reflection.
There are no innate ideas "stamped upon the mind" from birth, and all knowledge is rooted in experience.
Earlier philosophers had thought that there were innate ideas, but Locke will have none of this.
The former asserted that all knowledge comes through experience; the latter maintained that reason and innate ideas were prior.
Denying the possibility of innate ideas, he asserted that morality comes by revelation.
This is to show that you may be functional without innate ideas.