John Locke was a leading philosopher and political theorist. ... "Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” which advanced the view of the mind as a tabula rasa, or blank slate, ...

John Locke was a leading philosopher and political theorist. ... or blank slate, where sensory experiences dictate how one views the world. That work, his most famous, ...

What do babies think or dream of before they’re born? Did they arrive in the world as a tabula rasa, or a blank slate, as the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke famously suggested ...