In the text written by John Locke, concerning Human understanding he explains the fountains of knowledge and where our ideas originate from. He says that when we think our minds our engaged with ideas. John Locke's question is “How does he acquire these ideas?”, his theory is that there are two fountains of knowledge: the external objects and the internal operations. He explains that we are not born with beliefs. In the first stage of our lives we are still innocent and metaphorically speaking a blank piece of paper. John Locke says people do not contain information when they are first born, they gather them and make them into concepts, which then build up. The more information we obtain the more our conclusions become convoluted. In the text he explains that innate ideas do not exist and that our …show more content…
We are made up by both of these fountains, we could not be able to live without one of them. The experiences we make from our external world, is what we mirror to ourselves and then we bring these ideas together to make an understanding for ourselves. John Locke was a philosopher who lived from 1632 to 1704 and lived in the united states of america. He used the word “idea” as the most basic unit of human thought, it is all of our mental content from concrete sensory impressions to the abstract way of mirroring our experiences. What we as humans think, do and how we interact towards the external world. Locke believed in empiricism and that our minds are at a blank state when we are born and that there is no such thing as innate knowledge. He