No Innate Speculative Principles 1. The way shown how we come by any knowledge, sufficient to prove it not innate. General assent the great argument.
Universal consent proves nothing innate.
That men know them when they come to the use of reason, answered. Doubtful expressions, that have scarce any signification, go for clear reasons to those who, being prepossessed, take not the pains to examine even what they themselves say. If reason discovered them, that would not prove them innate. It is false that reason discovers them. No use made of reasoning in the discovery of these two maxims.