We Believe That We Know Universal Statements Such as "Every

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The Answer is The problem is, how do we get from what we know through individual perceptions such as "If I push this domino over, the next one falls too," to universal statements, such as "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction"? The rationalists insist that it is only by way of some innate ideas or rational intuitions that this is possible-and that the most necessary truths about the world (the statements of mathematics)could not possibly be based on experience but must be based on innate ideas.

We Believe That We Know Universal Statements Such as "Every

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