The Blank Slate
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a 2002 book by cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which he argues against tabula rasa models in the social sciences, claiming that human beh
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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
The Blank Slate
…linked dogmas" that constitute the dominant view of human nature in intellectual life: The blank slate – the idea that the mind has no innate traits (empiricism) The noble savage – the belief that people are born good and corrupted by society (romanticism…
Francis Bacon
John Locke
George Berkeley
David Hume