20 Mar innate

Inherited or present at birth. Innate abilities are part of the legacy with which humans are born. Some survival instincts are innate, as are the underlying cognitive abilities to recognize, generalize and reason. There is some argument as to whether or not certain language capabilities are innate. These issues are discussed in Volume 6.
Keywords: heredity
cognition
learning
References: associationism
cognition
genetics
inference
knowledge
taxonomy