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an old portrait of thomas lockee in a round frame with the words, john lock

Image taken from: Title: "The Works of John Locke, etc. (The Remains of John Locke ... Published from his original manuscripts.-An account of the life and writings of John Locke [by J. Le Clerc] . The third edition, etc.) [With a portrait.]" Author(s): Locke, John, 1632-1704 [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 12272.m.5" Page: 12 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: London (England) Date of publication: 1714…

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John Locke (1632-1704) was an empiricist, and so, he relied on observable date to understand the world. In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding he outlines how humans learn and develop. We are born as blank slates and all our experiences are added to that slate, without the need for innate ideas. “Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, a blank slate (tabula rasa) of while paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished?"

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