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What did Locke propose?
- we enter the world with our minds as "blank slates" on which experience writes
How did Locke assume we obtain knowledge?
- objectively through empirical observation
What 4 questions did Locke ask?
- Where does knowledge come from?
- What are the limits of human knowledge?
- Where do ideas come from?
- How does the mind put these ideas together?
Who wrote the Laws of Association?
- Aristotle
What are the 4 Laws of Association?
- Similarity: appearance, function
- Contrast: difference, opposite
- Contiguity: events occurring closely together are associated together
- Frequency: repetition of associations,
What does "tabula rasa" mean?
- blank slate
Where did Locke believe ideas come from?
- sensation
- reflection
What is sensation?
- registration of external, sensible objects
through the senses
- passively received by the mind
- sensation always comes before reflection
What is reflection?
- observation of the internal operations of the mind
- reflecting on sensations to form ideas
- sensation > reflection > ideas
- In reflecting – past sensory impressions also come
to mind - combine/abstract
What are Locke's 2 types of ideas?
- simple ideas
- complex ideas