John Locke

Question 0

Lockes empiricism

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True origin of ideas is experience.
Knowledge has two forms sensation and reflection.
Passive mind- through sensation objects in external world enter our minds
Through reflection the internal experience we have of the operations of our kinds ex-thinking believing knowing

Question 1

John Locke on innate ideas

Answer 1

Denies innate ideas and universal ideas. Says they cannot be proved
Claims on universal consent on any idea does not prove it innate
Children ignorant of them
We shouldn’t have to employ reason to find them.

Question 2

Simple ideas

Answer 2

Only way ideas are inscribed in the mind.
Allows for internal sense operations
Active blank slate

Question 3

The active mind

Answer 3

Elaborations of simple ideas
Mind can form complex ideas by combining comparing and abstracting dimples ideas
We can’t create anything that isn’t first in experience

Question 4

Representative perception

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Theory that our ideas correspond to and faithfully represent objects in the external world

Question 5

Tentative dualist-Locke

Answer 5

Believed in mental an material substances
Mental-the means by which we know the world( self intuitively)
Material- mechanical world