Locke's Blank Slate
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Locke's blank slate: the mind begins without innate ideas—like white paper—and all its materials arrive through experience and reflection.
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A child raised without ever seeing red, Locke argues, has no idea of red. Ideas trace back to encounters.
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Locke allows innate capacities—memory, comparison, abstraction. The slate is blank; the machinery is not.
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- Nothing yet depends on this.