Tabula rasa
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Tabula rasa is the idea of individuals being born empty of any built-in mental content, so that all knowledge comes from later perceptions or sensory experiences. Proponents typically form the extreme
Roman tabula, or wax tablet, with stylus
Female Figure (Sibyl with Tabula Rasa) by Diego Velázquez, c. 1648
Empiricism
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In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes either only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence. It is one of severa
Tabula rasa
…imprinted by one's environment onto the mind as one would onto a wax tablet. This idea is the central view posited in the theory of knowledge known as empiricism. Empiricists disagree with the doctrines of innatism or rationalism, which hold that the mind is born already in the possession of specific knowledge…
Francis Bacon
John Locke
George Berkeley
David Hume