Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished?... Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Epistemology

Author

John Locke

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1690 1690s 17th century

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Philosopher Writer

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Original Citation

Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. London: Thomas Basset, 1690, bk. 2, ch. 1.

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Pauline Phemister. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 1.

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