After reading about John Locke’s empiricism, I think that he is right about the tabula rasa. Locke believed that human beings were born with a blank state mind, just like a blank white piece of paper that has no words or ideas to it. He stated that everybody enters the world with no previous knowledge nor understanding about anything, and the only way to gain knowledge and furnish our brain is through experience. Locke claims that in order to come up with conclusions and grasp an understanding of this world, perceiving the world through our senses, and experiencing new things is crucial. The reason I agree with Locke is because is it impossible for a person to trap themselves in a small room, and avoid experiencing the world yet still gain
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On the exact opposite side are the secondary qualities which are not resemblances of their causes. Primary sources include shape, texture, motion, number and size, while secondary sources include odor, sound, taste, and color. With his comes the idea of representative realism in which our mind doesn't provide us with access to the true reality of the real world. To differentiate between primary and secondary sources, we can imagine a red triangle.The shape which is a triangle is the primary quality, while the color which is red in the secondary quality. According to Locke, the rectangular shape resembles the the object's property, while the red color, does not exactly resemble the object's property. To further clarify secondary qualities, if someone showed you a photo of yourself, the characteristic such it’s size, color, glossiness, and shape are just features of the photo, the same thing goes with the features that our minds pertain only to our minds instead of to the world. In conclusion, after reading about John Locke’s empiricism, I agree with him about his idea of tabula rasa because it seems to be impossible for us humans to fill our brain with knowledge without experiencing the world and perceiving it through our senses. Yes, we can learn some things from others without using our senses and experience the world, but other things just require us to use our senses so we can be exposed to them and to learn more about
On the exact opposite side are the secondary qualities which are not resemblances of their causes. Primary sources include shape, texture, motion, number and size, while secondary sources include odor, sound, taste, and color. With his comes the idea of representative realism in which our mind doesn't provide us with access to the true reality of the real world. To differentiate between primary and secondary sources, we can imagine a red triangle.The shape which is a triangle is the primary quality, while the color which is red in the secondary quality. According to Locke, the rectangular shape resembles the the object's property, while the red color, does not exactly resemble the object's property. To further clarify secondary qualities, if someone showed you a photo of yourself, the characteristic such it’s size, color, glossiness, and shape are just features of the photo, the same thing goes with the features that our minds pertain only to our minds instead of to the world. In conclusion, after reading about John Locke’s empiricism, I agree with him about his idea of tabula rasa because it seems to be impossible for us humans to fill our brain with knowledge without experiencing the world and perceiving it through our senses. Yes, we can learn some things from others without using our senses and experience the world, but other things just require us to use our senses so we can be exposed to them and to learn more about