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Often appears with: universal consent · spread of religious ideas · language, naming, and meaning · fire and sun analogy · fate, destiny, and necessity
Usually: argument (1) · curiosity (1) · skepticism (1)
Locke says even widespread names for God do not show an innate idea, comparing it to universal words like “fire” and “sun,” and arguing that repeated mention and reason help spread the concept.
9. The name of God not universal or obscure in meaning. But had all mankind everywhere a notion of a God, (whereof yet history tells us the contrary,) it would not from thence follow, that the idea of him was innate. For, though no nation were to be found without a name, and some few dark notions of him, yet that would not prove them to be natural impressions on the mind; no more than the names of fire, or the sun, …