 Cowie (1998) pushes on this idea from another direction. Drawing on Socrates’ famous interaction with the slave boy in Plato’s Meno, Cowie notes that the boy’s knowledge of geometry is regarded as innate simply because it developed in an (arguably) informationally impoverished environment. It makes no difference whether the slave boy’s interaction with Socrates qualifies as a normal environment or not. Hence, environmental invariance is not connected, she argues, to intuitive judgments of innateness (see Khalidi 2002 for a discussion of this argument).