Editing Innatism (section)

=== Plato ===
[[Plato]] argues that if there are certain concepts that we know to be true but did not learn from experience, then it must be because we have an innate knowledge of it and that this knowledge must have been gained before birth. In Plato's ''[[Meno]]'', he recalls a situation where his mentor [[Socrates]] questioned a slave boy about geometry. Though the slave boy had no previous experience with geometry, he was able to answer correctly. Plato reasoned that this was possible because Socrates' questions sparked the innate knowledge of math the boy had from birth.<ref name=":1">{{cite web | last=Lacewing | first=Michael | date=16 April 2008 | title=Innate knowledge | publisher=Routledge Taylor & Francis Group| url=http://documents.routledge-interactive.s3.amazonaws.com/9781138793934/AS/ReasonandExperience/Innate-knowledge.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222195252/http://documents.routledge-interactive.s3.amazonaws.com/9781138793934/AS/ReasonandExperience/Innate-knowledge.pdf |archive-date=22 February 2017 }}</ref>