PHIL 030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: New Essays On Human Understanding
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Since senses do not give us what was already inside our minds, we can conclude that the ideas are innate to begin with. Leibniz continues on to say that the mind was never a tabula rasa since it has innate ideas which the truth exists. This goes the same for the world in that if you keep going back in time, there was never a time when the world is nothing so there must be something. He goes on saying that there is some one being that creates the whole universe so this basically rules out the idea that nothing exists. Such an object would be that of an idea, it constitutes something so important that it would be impossible for it to not exist. The existing world is also made up of physical objects that can be sensed and not metaphysical.
