Instead of making a tabula rasa, and beginning from the foundations, we utilise to the utmost what we happen to possess, and add merely what is absolutely indispensable.
Like most institutions erected on a tabula rasa, the new system is at once simple and symmetrical.
This hypothesis is always at bottom no other than that of the tabula rasa, only it is no longer the individual who is this tabula rasa, since each one has, by heredity, received a pre-formed intelligence.
Nevertheless, under pain of contradicting the hypothesis, we are forced to admit that there was a first subject who, prior to the action of the object, must have been this tabula rasa.
His mind must become a tabula rasa before his teacher can begin to write on it.
The Priestly Code, agreeing in this with the Deuteronomistic revision, represents the whole of Canaan as having been made a tabula rasa, and then, masterless and denuded of population, submitted to the lot.
After all these are destroyed, there remains nothing but uncertainty and doubt; and it is in this state of nudity, approaching very nearly to the tabula rasa of Locke, that the human mind should approach the new temple of nature.
To Descartes it was useless rubbish to be cleared away, that we might get a tabula rasa upon which to make a fresh start.
Accepting for the moment the metaphor of a tabula rasa, Leibniz asks where we shall find a tablet which yet does not have some quality, and which is not a co-operating cause, at least, in whatever effects are produced upon it?
But when Leibniz touches upon the conception of a tabula rasa, of a mind which in itself is a mere blank, but has the capacity for knowing, he assumes the offensive.
The object of Descartes is the erection of a new structure of truth upon a tabula rasa of all former doctrines.
One is to endow sublunar nature with the intelligence and purpose visible in its processes and evolutions; the other is to enable the rational power in man to rise from a tabula rasa to an actual intellect with a content.
It serves merely as a tabula rasa, as a potential background, as an empty receptacle, as a reflecting mirror for form to be written, filled out, impressed or reflected therein or upon.
Actually it is a tabula rasa, an empty slate, a blank paper.
The soul, originally a tabula rasa, is gradually perfected by the ideas which theoretical speculation acquires.
Experience with them appeared to consist solely of a succession of sensations appearing to, impressing, or affecting a tabula rasa of consciousness.
It may be fairly claimed that to this extent he occupied common ground with the sensationalists, in that he was an adherent of the tabula rasa view of the Mind, expressed in the maxim:-- Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit in sensu.
The soul is a tabula rasa and a mere mirror, says this theory.
The soul is a tabula rasa, all four maintain, a white paper on which, to begin with, nothing is inscribed.
I agree with you that, in all probability, in thirty or forty years we shall settle our account with France and make tabula rasa.
And in thirty or forty years after that France will have her reckoning with us and make tabula rasa of Germany; and then we again, and so on.
When men break off from a system in which they were born and bred, they cannot, if they would, make of their minds a tabula rasa, freed from all prejudices and associations, ready to receive whatever can be proved purely a priori.
The attempt was here made to establish certain principles of truth as innate and immanent in the subject, which should avail both against the tabula rasa of Locke, and the scepticism of Hume.
Mind, to the partial realism, was essentially void, a tabula rasa, its whole content came to it from the external world.
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