john locke, saad, nikki, monit
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Saad NikkiMohit
• Locke believed that we gain knowledge by experience, this is called empiricism
• Locke agreed with Aristotle that we are not born with innate ideas, and that we learn through experience
• Locke’s theory was that the only way we learn is by tasting, smelling, touching, and hearing the external world
• Locke believed that there were two types of ideas, Simple and Complex
•Simple ideas are easy sensations like feeling a hot stove
• Complex ideas are a grouping of simple ideas like when you look at a banana, you see it is yellow (color) it is mushy (texture) it is sweet (taste) these ideas form the idea of a banana
• Ideas that are nonmaterial were also explained by simple ideas
• If you imagine a griffin, you have put together the parts of different animals the body of a lion, the head, wings, and talons of an eagle
• Locke stated that all things have primary and secondary qualities
• Primary: height and weight (undeniable truths)
• Secondary: rely on subjective or personal judgments (color, taste and sound)
SenseExperience
Sensation
Impression in the Mind
Reflection
Idea
You touch ice
Cold
Ice is cold
Ice = cold
If you touch ice, it will be
cold
• Locke disagreed with Rene Descartes, he believed that humans are born without any knowledge of the world
• Descartes borrowed ideas from Plato, he believed that we are all born with innate ideas
• Locke agreed with Aristotle’s theory that humans are born with a clean slate, and that we learn while we grow, experiencing the world as we go
• Aristotle believed that we gain knowledge by experiencing the world with our senses
SENSE: Sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch
SENSATION: The operation or function of the senses; perception or awareness of stimuli through the senses
REFLECTION: Thinking about what you experienced, processing the information
IMPRESSION: The first and immediate effect of an experience or perception upon the mind
QUALITIES: Essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute
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