Philosophy A-Level
Universal consent
What Universal consent means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Universal consent
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The claim that if ideas were innate they would be universally assented to, but no principle is agreed on by all, including children and the 'idiot'.
Topics that use Universal consent
- Reason as a source of knowledge (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- A priori knowledge of existence
- Certainty and foundationalism
- Copy principle
- Empiricism
- Hume's Fork
- Intuition
- Leibniz and necessary truths
- Plato's theory of recollection
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