[DOC] [TLE] Tabula rasa - Wikipedia [PAR] Tabula rasa refers to the epistemological idea that individuals are born without 
built-in mental ... Tabula rasa is a Latin phrase often translated as "blank slate" in 
English and originates from the ... John Locke's expression of the idea in Essay 
Concerning Human Understanding (he uses the .... Innate talents: reality or myth
? [DOC] [TLE] An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Wikipedia [PAR] An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by John Locke 
concerning the ... He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa, 
although he did not ... I of the Essay is Locke's attempt to refute the rationalist 
notion of innate ideas. ... If we have a universal understanding of a concept like 
sweetness, it is not... [DOC] [TLE] The Great Debate: John Locke's Theory of Knowledge [PAR] Published in 1690, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is the ... Essay 
is the idea that when we are born the mind is like a blank piece of paper. He says
: ... Locke argues that if such a proposition were innate then every person in 
every ... For Locke it makes no sense to describe a truth that is discovered 
through the... [DOC] [TLE] John Locke > By Individual Philosopher > Philosophy [PAR] He argued that all of our ideas are ultimately derived from experience, and the ... 
a "tabula rasa" (or "blank slate") and that people are born without innate ideas. ... 
Both parents were Puritans, and the family moved soon after Locke's birth to the 
... "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding", eventually published in 1690... [DOC] [TLE] John Locke (16341704): An Essay Concerning Human - SparkNotes [PAR] A summary of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in 's John Locke (
16341704). ... He begins by opposing the idea that we are all born knowing 
certain ... Locke contends that, on the contrary, no principle is actually accepted 
by every ... Locke offers another argument against innate knowledge, asserting 
that... [DOC] [TLE] John Locke (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) [PAR] Sep 2, 2001 ... Locke's monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ... Locke, like 
Hobbes before him, found the Aristotelian philosophy he was taught at Oxford of 
little use. ..... Book I argues that we have no innate knowledge. ... So, at birth, the 
human mind is a sort of blank slate on which experience writes. [DOC] [TLE] John Locke - mind as a tabula rasa - Age of the Sage [PAR] John Locke in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding restated the ... out 
the case that the human mind at birth is a complete, but receptive, blank slate ( 
scraped ... Locke argued that people acquire knowledge from the information 
about the ... mind to be, as we say, white paper void of all characters, without any 
ideas. [DOC] [TLE] Innate idea - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] 1 Philosophical debate: innate ideas vs. tabula rasa ... inborn ideas) vs. tabula 
rasa (at birth, the mind is like a blank slate) has been the object of ... were critical 
of the theory and denied the existence of any innate ideas, arguing ... Locke 
would not accept the idea that someone can be aware of what he or she does not 
know. [DOC] [TLE] Innate Ideas: A Contradition? - Horizon of Reason [PAR] Philosophy has shown that innate ideas are a logical possibility, but has not been 
able to ... and compares the mind of an infant to a tabula rasa, a blank slate. ... 
Locke disagrees with the 'argument from universal consent' and writes that if 
there were any .... Locke, John, An essay concerning human understanding, (
Chinese... [DOC] [TLE] In this paper I will argue that neither Ren   Descartes  , the ... [PAR] Descartes feels that he cannot believe or accept anything that he cannot be ... 
The first is Innate; an innate idea would be an idea that someone is born with. ... If 
someone were to look at the sky or ocean they would think of blue; the person 
was not ...

Question: In "Essay Concerning Human Understanding", he argued that we're born with a blank slate, with no innate ideas
Answer: John Locke