PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Subjective Idealism, Monism, Reductionism
16 Aug 2018
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The nature-nurture debate examines the two contradicting concepts of nature" and. The nature" concept fundamentally states that most knowledge is inherent and present at birth, where nurture" state that individuals learn most of the information that they perceive and gain from their external environment. Locke was the right person to ask due to the fact that he was studying the phenomenon at the time and was greatly involved in the nature vs. nurture or empiricism vs. Nativism/rationalism debate, in which he was an empiricist who believed that most information was learned from one"s external environment: what do philosophers mean when they talk about nativism and empiricism. Nativism or rationalism refers to the notion of information being innate whereas. The notion of tabula rasa, meaning blank slate, correlate closely with the notion of. Aristotle was a supporter of this theory: aristotle"s teacher plato was a nativist.
