Babies born with a capability for rational thought

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Children may not be born knowing how to think, but are babies born with a capability for rational thought?

To think about this question, let's consider the ideas of linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky:

Do children have an innate capability for language?

Chomsky has argued that children are born with a capability to grasp the syntax and logic of language, that children have innate abilities to learn language and grammar, and that this is an example of what Kant would call "a priori" knowledge, or knowledge that exists before experience.

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