The answer to this question is the third statement which is "innate ideas exist because we are all born with them". Although there are some philosophers who disagree with this concept. Innate ideas are ideas that are inborn. We have already this idea even we don't have experience.
The correct answer is the following: <em>option c. General assent is the concept that innate ideas exist because we are all born with them.</em> In philosophy, the concept of "general assent" is defined as an opinion and belief that some men have, that as humans, we are all born with some innate principles, notions, characters and ideas. The concept means that this ideas and principles are innate, as they are "stamped" in the mind and soul of men from the first moment of life, and therefore they are innate.
To use your example, cede does mean to go. However, "recede" means to draw back or go back. Think of an ocean. What does the tide do at certain times? It recedes!
I would say that the answer would be that it is a written agreement composed by a consensus of the new Settlers arriving at New Plymouth in November of 1620. The compact held the first written laws for the new land, and determined authority within the settlement.
