Reflection On Blank Slate

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You made such good points justifying the module prompt. I had explored it and cultivated valuable information. It is true as you expressed that individuals are subjective to the environmental inheritance, we learn from what were left for us to observe, use, question, perceive, research, etc… then acquire cognitive abilities to proceed to other cognizance levels. Plato believed on forms as part of individuals’ life. According to him, form is what makes our perception real, and we live with it; therefore, everything in individuals’ living environment is shaped at certain fashion reflecting forms. I wonder how an individual who grew up in emptiness, isolated from all cues, once exposed to the real world would social categorize and make perception of others. …show more content…
According to Locke, knowledge is acquired after birth while in contact with nature; therefore cognition is acquired through experience via different means such as, observation, initiation, perception, and nature-nurture. Well Jimmie, I believe in your opinion as being against the “Blank Slate” since some behaviors and characteristics that individuals portray are genetic, they are inherited from someone within the family line; for example:

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