...view, as it is certain the thoughts of children do. THE SOURCE OF OUR IDEAS. ' -x^_ Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...variety ? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowlledge ? To this I answer, in one word. From experi- * ence: in that all our knowledge is founded,...

...his Essay, and answers it in a general way. I quote the whole passage : — " Let us, then, suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...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...

...ideas of all sorts are in the nature of mental pictures. 'Let us suppose,' he says, ' the mind to be white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas;...man has painted on it with an almost endless variety ? To this I answer in one word, from Experience.' Under the head of Experience, however, Locke distinctly...

...how he comes by them " (these ideas) ? Innate ideas have already been refuted. "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 ? ... To this I answer in a word, from Experience : in that all our knowledge is founded. As to the...

...truths which must be taken as axiome, being incapable of further analysis. "Whence cornea it (the mind) by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy...materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience ; on that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives...

...he compares the mind to " white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," and then asks : " Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...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...

...broad, inasmuch as it flows from two fountain heads, — sensation and reflection. "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? . . . To this I answer in one word from experience. . . . Our observation employed either about external...

...conferred upon experience by the English philosophers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...ideas: - How comes it to be furnished? (...) Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from EXPERIENCE (Hume...

...universal laws" (72). The perspective is based on the epistemology of John Locke: "Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas" (.pj. In this schema1 truths are objective, and we take them in, unmarked by our places or ourselves....

...aside, therefore, the hypothesis of innate ideas, how does the mind come to be furnished with 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 ' £., I, i. 18; I, p. 51. •...