ABSTRACT
This was not to say, however, that sense experience forms knowledge, as it were, “by itself.” To construct this knowledge, Aristotle postulated a special faculty, the faculty of intellect or reason. Although the faculty is innate, the concepts themselves are not; they are abstracts from sense experience. Whereas Rationalists like Plato argued that innate knowledge is realised through rational thinking and discourse, Aristotle’s version, based on induction of knowledge from sense experience, is often called Empiricism.
