You know what's exceptionally funny: Locke didn't go with "tabula rasa" in the published version of his book. He says "Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, *white paper*...". Also, he didn't invent the concept. It was taken from Aristotle. https://twitter.com/KANTBOT20K/status/958920870516396032 …
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From De Anima: "What [the mind] thinks must be in it just as characters may be said to be on a writing-tablet on which as yet nothing stands written: this is exactly what happens with mind..."
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Yes, it wasn't until some random Englishman in 1600 did we get the notion that people need to see things to have ideas about them. Why do /trad/s always screech autistically at the idea that knowledge is to a large extent experiential.
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Replying to @LokiJulianus
yeah the extent to which ppl who LARP about scholasticism attribute Aristotle’s ideas to the Enlightenment boggles the mind
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the other important pt about tabula rasa is that Locke was making a point about ideas which refer to objects; he didn’t say anything about how we learn, how we think or reason, how some ppl get to be smarter
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @LokiJulianus
it was the next two generations that found themselves obliged to extend Locke’s argument to more fundamental categories to rebut Cartesian objections
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He also says that the mind does have innate ways/tendencies of assembling information. I mean, that has to be true for empiricism to be coherent.
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Do you remember where specifically? I know there are cases where he says functions are impressed in our mind in Treatises/other works, but denies the same claim in the Essay (like moral thinking)
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