In the reading “Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke disproves the belief that all human beings are born with innate ideas, but rather everything is learned through experience.. In Book 1 of the essay, Locke is pointing out all the reasons why humans can’t be born with innate knowledge and how all knowledge is acquired through experience. He also argues that if there were innate ideas, it would be universal knowledge agreed by everyone. But even if there is a universal agreement among all humans, then it is a result of something other than an innate idea. Locke still finds fault in belief of innate ideas because something cannot be universally agreed upon if not everyone agrees. He uses the example of idiots and children and how
