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- English speakers have called that initial state of mental blankness tabula rasa (a term taken from a Latin phrase that translates as "smooth or erased tablet") since the 16th century, but it wasn't until British philosopher John Locke championed the concept in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding in 1690 that the term gained widespread popularity in our language.
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Oct 17, 2024 · Tabula rasa (Latin: ‘scraped tablet’—i.e., ‘clean slate’), in epistemology (theory of knowledge) and psychology, a supposed condition that empiricists have attributed to the human mind before ideas have been imprinted on it by the reaction of the senses to the external world of objects.
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Tabula rasa is a Latin phrase often translated as clean slate in English and originates from the Roman tabula, a wax-covered tablet used for notes, which was blanked by heating the wax and then smoothing it. [1]
John Locke, as perceived by your senses. In his brilliant 1689 work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke argues that, at birth, the mind is a tabula rasa (a blank slate) that we fill with ‘ideas’ as we experience the world through the five senses.
Sep 2, 2001 · Locke distinguishes a variety of different kinds of ideas in Book II. Locke holds that the mind is a tabula rasa or blank sheet until experience in the form of sensation and reflection provide the basic materials—simple ideas—out of which most of our more complex knowledge is constructed. While the mind may be a blank slate in regard to ...
In John Locke's philosophy, tabula rasa was the theory that the (human) mind is at birth a "blank slate" without rules for processing data, and that data is added and rules for processing are formed solely by one's sensory experiences. The notion is central to Lockean empiricism.
The term 'tabula rasa' is Latin for 'blank slate' and signifies the idea that individuals start life without built-in mental content. John Locke's interpretation of tabula rasa was foundational for modern empiricism and influenced later educational theories emphasizing experiential learning.
The image of the human mind as a tabula rasa (an emptied writing tablet) is widely believed to have originated with Locke in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and to be a characterization of the mind as formless and without predispositions at birth. Both beliefs are false.
