"All ideas come from sensation or reflection.- Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, From experience: in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself." John Locke p. 59
Locke is saying that knowledge does not appear out of nowhere. It has to come from somewhere and Locke says that somewhere is from experience. I think that this passage could be used as an argument against things that are innate.
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Locke is saying that knowledge does not appear out of nowhere. It has to come from somewhere and Locke says that somewhere is from experience. I think that this passage could be used as an argument against things that are innate.
I feel that you must learn to gain knowledge and that it cannot appear out of no where. I think it can be used to argue innateness, because it is completly contradicting it.
I agree with Locke that everything comes form experience. Like he says knowledge is doe snot appear like out of no where. We all learn and gain knowledge and experience.
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