PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Tabula Rasa, Empiricism, Subjective Idealism
22 Jan 2020
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Plays the most emphasis on the importance of experience (things we see in the real world. Empiricism is anyone who believes that knowledge is derived from experience. The importance of experience is usually stressed instead of innate ideas. Empiricism is that knowledge cannot exist unless this evidence has first been gathered so; for empiricists attaining knowledge begins with sensory experiences. Took practice of medicine and develop interest in politics. Wrote this book and that was accumulation of 20 years of study. Mind at birth is a blank slate which they call tabula rasa. All knowledge is empirically derive- comes from sensory experience. He has 2 kinds of sensory experiences: sensation: that comes from direct sensory experience. Input to our senses by certain objects: reflection: operations of the mind, perception, thinking, doubting, reasoning, and knowing. (cognitive functions) it"s the minds ability to replects on itself. Reaction against descartes (parts of his ideas) in particular with the idea of innate ideas.
