existing knowledge is called the nativist view. The view that knowledge is gained through experiences is called the empiricist view. An English philosopher called John Locke‚ put forward a theory that at birth‚ the mind is at a blank slate‚ or tabula rasa‚ onto which experiences of what he/she sees‚ hears‚ smells‚ tastes and feels are written. In other words‚ there is no store of knowledge‚ but through our senses‚ our knowledge comes. Today it is still questionable and it is referred to as the nature
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Enlightenment John Locke (August 29‚ 1632- October 28‚ 1704) was a British philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricists‚ but is equally important to social contract theory. His ideas had enormous influence on the development of epistemology and political philosophy‚ and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and contributors to liberal theory. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau‚ many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers‚ as well
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The golden age of Islamic (and/or Muslim) art lasted from 750 to the 16th century‚ when ceramics‚ glass‚ metalwork‚ textiles‚ illuminated manuscripts‚ and woodwork flourished. Lustrous glazing was an Islamic contribution to ceramics. Islamic luster-painted ceramics were imitated by Italian potters during the Renaissance. Manuscript illumination developed into an important and greatly respected art‚ and portrait miniature painting flourished in Persia. Calligraphy‚ an essential aspect of written Arabic
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Game Past In 1958 William Higinbotham (see figure 1) tiring to find a way to help stimulate interest in his exhibit at Brookhaven created with the help of Robert V. Dvorak a game called Tennis for Two. This was a two-dimensional view of a tennis court that was displayed on an oscilloscope (see figure 2). This is believed to be the first video game that had been created (see figure 3) (Brookheaven national Laboratory)‚ (Scientific and Technical Information‚ 2008)‚ (TJB‚ 2007)‚ (Anderson‚ 1983)
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(1634-1704) was one of the most significant and powerful philosophers during the Enlightenment era. Both the French Enlightenment and Founding Fathers of the American Revolution drew on his thoughts. John Locke suggested that the human mind was a tabula rasa (blank slate). There were no "innate ideas" known from birth by all people and society forms people’s mind. Since all people share the same undeveloped usual features‚ people are all equal and they determine their liberty. Locke said all human beings
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Prior to the scientific revolution‚ the Old World view on science placed heavy emphasis on religion and had geocentric beliefs‚ meaning that it was widely believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. Then‚ the scientific revolution of the 17th century established a new view of the universe‚ reexamined the old theories‚ and emphasized natural philosophy and science. In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres‚ a book which criticized the geocentric
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cannot. Linked to this is Locke’s so called “theory of mind” which is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self. Locke was the first define the self through a continuity of consciousness‚ arguing that the mind was a “tabula rasa” a blank slate which became filled with knowledge deriving from experience observation and experimentation. This was in contrast to the pre existing Cartesian philosophy we stated that we are born with and innate
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acquire knowledge. He essentially opened the doors for studying the mind‚ which is the basis of modern psychology. Early empiricists argued that the mind is shaped by sensory experience and that humans start off with a sort of blank slate‚ or tabula rasa‚ which develops through experience. Descartes took a more nativist
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Imagination and Fancy in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria Coleridge‚in his essay "Biographia Literaria"‚rejecting the empiricist assumption that the mind was tabula rasa on which external experience and sense impressions were imprinted‚ stored‚recalled‚ combined both come from respectively the Latin word ’imaginato’ and Greek word ’phantasia’. Coleridge defines imagination by saying that "The imagination then I consider either as primary‚ or secondary. The primary imagination I hold to be the
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1000 new species discovered in the Mekong region alone in the last decade. Empiricism is based on a reliance of the senses; however there is a major emphasis on visual observation in particular. The mind is conveyed as a clean tablet (slate) or ‘tabula rasa’; it should not be subjected to any predisposition. This term was coined by Aristotle‚ what the mind thinks must be in it in the same sense as letters are on a tablet‚ which bears no actual writing; in the case of the mind this is what is believed
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