Empiricism s defined as the view that all knowledge of facts must be derieved from sense experience. The first Bristish Emiricist was John Locke. John Locke’s aim was to undertand our understanding. This included: how it works, what materials it has to work with, and how far it can reach. Locke also says, our idea of the soul should be clear or equal as our idea of material substance. Words are ideas that withstand in the mind. In his book I Locke conveys that an idea is not universally accepted. This is because not everyone has the gift to contradict, such as children and idiots. These factors can be changed with education and conversation. In book II he exclaims, the mind is a black slate otherwise known as a tabula rasa at birth, but with