British empiricism is the thought that knowledge comes from sensory perception while discarding the idea that thoughts are innate. John Locke was a British empiricist who believed that our minds were blank slates and that we learned from experiences. This makes Locke in empiricist because this notion rejects the idea of being born with innate thoughts. Locke did not dismiss that we may have innate abilities such as the ability to think in general but he argued that all of our knowledge was based off of sensory experiences. While some things may seem to become innate thought like the smell of rain; Locke argued that we experience things so many times that they seem to become innate. David Hume is another British empiricist who thought
