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Descartes Locke2 PDF
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An Outline of Philosopy-7 81
AN OUTLINE OF PHILOSOPHY
. from experience. He knows first thatsweet is sweet and is not bitter, and then inductively
arrives at the laws of identity and contradiction.]
Locke's positive theory :
. .According to Locke, the mind at birth is like a tabula rasa (blank
. tablet) on which experience gradually writes its impressions. Experience is
of two types: 'sensation' and 'reflection". By sensation we perceive the
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SOl'RCES OF KNOWLEDGE