Leibniz disagreed with Locke’s contention that all ideas are derived from experience. How did Leibniz explain the origin of ideas?
Descartes died when Leibniz was four years old and Descartes’s philosophy dominated in the European countries when Leibniz entered into productive goals. Leibniz’s first crucial work was considered as the criticism of Locke’s Essay that argues with the conception that Leibniz fully disagreed with Locke’s hypothesis that all ideas are derived from experience. Locke’s postulated that there is nothing in the mind that possesses the ability of sensory information.
It seems that Locke’s fully believed that ideas derived from experience were abolished from the mind and nothing could save in the parts of the brain. But, Leibniz suggested that there is something in the mind that ideas were generated in the senses first and then in the mind itself. He postulated highly active type of mind and rejected Locke’s belief that no ideas come from experience, although all ideas comes from high active experience.
Leibniz also confirmed that the activation of sense receptor leads to generation of non-materialistic type of idea. He believes that machine has the potential of thinking and imagines the size of the machine that could explore around the physical and interacting parts. The brain has the potential to generate more and more ideas that has the ability to distinguished from innate type of idea’s viewpoint.