Rationalists hold that the mind contains ideas innate (built-in) from birth. The Empiricists hold that the mind is a tabula rasa or blank slate...

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competing ideas of inbred intelligence and "Tabula rasa" polarize the debate about
human intelligence and learning. If we are to believe the rationalist perspective, individuals
are born with some innate knowledge that manifests itself throughout the life cycle, essentially
saying that there is archaic human experience in our genetics that holds over knowledge from
previous generations. However, the empiricist perspective makes the argument that humanity is
born with nothing, a blank slate on which to make our memories and create knowledge.

While both of these concepts have their merits, there is some scientific evidence for
instinctual knowledgeessentially knowledge that, like the...