...no hint or suggestion of any knowledge prior to experience. The mind is a blank. He then inquires, " Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in one word, from experience; in that all knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself."...

...no hint or suggestion of any knowledge prior to experience. The mind is a blank. He then inquires, " Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in one word, from experience; in that all knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself."...

...it receives the first impressions of sense, to a sheet of white paper. " Let us suppose," says he, " the mind to be as we say, white paper, void of all...materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience" On other occasions Locke compares the mind to a dark cabinet or room, into...

...in their very firat being. This opinion I have, at large, examined already. — Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; ho w comes it to be furnished? — Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this...

...comments. My reason for saying so, I shall endeavour to explain as clearly and concisely as I can. " Let us suppose," says Locke, " the mind to be, as...void of all characters, without any ideas: How comes ft to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has...

...Fortunately for us, the author's positions can be given concisely almost in his own words : " Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all character?, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence has it all tho materials of reason...

...to the present case. If we turn to Book II., chap. i., sect. 2, we read thus : " Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished ?" Locke in this passage never denies that the mind may be possessed of certain inherent properties...

...from sensation or reflection. — Let us then suppose the mind to he, as we eay. white paper, voiil of all characters, without any ideas ; how comes it...materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, From experience : in that all oar know ledge is. founded, and from that~it ultimately derives...

...theu suppose the mind to be, as we say, whitepaper, void af all characters, without any ideas. — Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in one word, from experience ; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives...

...the mind ; for which I shall appeal to every one's observation and experience. t. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in one word, from experience : in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives...