The modern understanding of this ancient theory of tabula rasa can be largely attributed to English philosopher and scholar, John Locke, who wrote on the subject in his work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding published in 1690. ... Locke explores the aspects of human knowledge in his Essay, and concludes that "knowledge is restricted to ideas generated by objects that one experiences through the senses or by reflecting upon our mental operations on those ideas" (Caldwell 577). ... Hume, similarly, believed that human senses gave the humans the ability to perceive, and that perce...

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