Question

Read the excerpt from Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, and answer the question.

Observable in children. He that attentively considers the state of a child first coming into the world, will have little reason to think him stored with plenty of ideas. I think it will be granted easily, that if a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green, than he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster, or a pine-apple, has of those particular relishes

This kind of thinking is an example, for Locke, of _____.

abstraction of general ideas
retention of primary qualities
the mind as a tabula rasa
children as independen substancest

Answer 1

the mind as a tabula rasa

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Answer 2

The mind as a tabula rasa

Step-by-step explanation:

Locke considered the mind to be a blank slate, hence called tabula rasa, from Latin ("scraped tablet"), meaning yet to be filled. This assertion implied that the mind was entirely defined by post-birth experiences, such as socialization, culture, parenting, experience.