Locke rejected the basic premises of the pre Enlightenment philosophers about all human beings having innate behavior. Locke also addressed the problem of general assent arguing that there is not enough proof for this claim saying that "There is nothing more commonly taken for granted. Pre Enlightenment thinkers answered the question of innate ideas with the concept of universal assent , arguing that if everyone has these ideas then they must have been there all along. Locke also argued that human beings are not born knowing what is right and wrong or that God does or does not exist, but rather, that these ideas are ones we learn from observing and interacting with the world around us. Descartes used the statement " I think, therefore I am"
