Friday, March 28, 2008
tabula rasa- john locke
John Locke believed in the idea of tabula rasa or clean slate. He believed that we all started off with this clean slate and had no innate ideas when we are born. As we grow, our slate fills up with knowledge that is based on our prior experiences. Experience is what makes our knowledge. Our knowledge is not based on anything before our birth for Locke. Descartes, on the other hand, believed that we are born with innate ideas and our experiences expand to create a knowledge base for us. However, Locke attacks this theory that humans are born knowing certain things.
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there really isn't any room for interperatation with locke. he says what he means. one more point he makes about innate ideas is that some ideas my be percieved as innate but are really just learned instantly at a very early age
jimmy
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