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John Locke's View Of Knowledge

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John Locke believed that all knowledge comes from experience throughout our life and nothing is already known from birth. Locke stated that no human is born with already resident knowledge, that the human brain is what is known as “tabula rasa” meaning blank slate. Locke’s view of knowledge includes two categories primary qualities, and secondary qualities. Primary qualities are qualities that impress themselves upon the human mind; Primary qualities include features of objects such as size, shape, orientation in space, mass, and number. Secondary qualities are a mixture of the way things are and the way things seem to be. This includes color, smell, texture, taste and sound, which are not found in the physical objects physically, but are
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