Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
General introduction
Part I. Platonic Recollection: Introduction
1. The Meno
2. Recollection in the middle period
Part II. Aristotelian Experience: Introduction
3. The rejection of innatism
4. Levels of learning
5. Discovery and continuity in science
6. Discovery and continuity in ethics
Appendix to Part II - perception of the universal
Part III. Hellenistic Concepts: Introduction
7. Hellenistic philosophy and common sense
8. Innateness in the Hellenistic era
Interim conclusions
Part IV. Innatism in the Seventeenth Century: Introduction
9. The inner core and mortar of our thoughts
10. Locke and the posture of blind credulity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of ancient passages
General index.

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