"And he labours hard to prove that these Ideas are not innate, but would have our Souls like a Blank Paper, a Rasa Tabula, ready to receive Ideas, but void of all; And affirms that these Ideas are the Foundation of all our Knowledge; and that they are conveyed to the Mind by external Objects."
— Anonymous [A Gentleman Late of the Temple, George Osborn]
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Author, and Sold by J. Fuller
Date
1748
Metaphor
"And he labours hard to prove that these Ideas are not innate, but would have our Souls like a Blank Paper, a Rasa Tabula, ready to receive Ideas, but void of all; And affirms that these Ideas are the Foundation of all our Knowledge; and that they are conveyed to the Mind by external Objects."
Metaphor in Context
[...] These Definitions or Descriptions of Ideas will, I believe, appear very loose to thinking Persons, and what few Readers will imagine Mr. Lock meant by the Word Idea. And he labours hard to prove that these Ideas are not innate, but would have our Souls like a Blank Paper, a Rasa Tabula, ready to receive Ideas, but void of all; And affirms that these Ideas are the Foundation of all our Knowledge; and that they are conveyed to the Mind by external Objects.
But yet these Ideas are not in the external Objects.
But yet these Ideas are not in the external Objects.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "tabula rasa" in ECCO
Citation
The Mitre and Crown; or, Great Britain's True Interest. in Which Our Constitution in Church and State Will Be Explain'd and Defended, and a Short Account of Most Valuable Books Given, With Some Original Pieces, and Law-Cases. and Also an Abstract of What Is Material in the Several Publick Papers, With the Usual Common News. and an Account of Births, Marriages, Preferments, Deaths, &c. to Be Be Publish'd at the Middle and End of Each Month. by a Gentleman Late of the Temple. 2 vols. (London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by J[ohn]. Fuller in Ave-Maria Lane, and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1748). vol. 1 of 2.
Theme
Blank Slate; Lockean Philosophy
Date of Entry
10/11/2006
