Date: 1727

And "therefore, if the Present Philosophy is of this Opinion, that the Mind is a Rasa Tabula, a Perfectly Unactive and Unintelligent Being in it's self, and in it's own Nature, it it only Perceives, as Impulses are made on it, in like Manner, as this paper Received no Characters, but what are Wri...

— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)

Date: 1727

"all that Enumeration of Ideas in the World, and the Sensations, which are said to be the Cause of them, will not be Sufficient to Prove, that the Mind is nothing else, that a Rasa Tabula, or a Piece of Blank Paper, good for little, but to Write on"

— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)

Date: 1727

"All which Ideas of Reflection, do as fully Evince the Mind not to be a Rasa Tabula, as it is Suppos'd the Ideas of Sensation do Prove it is one."

— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)

Date: 1727

"It is Plain it cannot so much Subsist in the Mind, if the Mind was no more than a Rasa Tabula; Because then there would be Ideas Impressed upon it, of which it would be Passive, without any Power of Reviving them; They would be Imprinted upon it, and there Continue, or else by Degrees Wear off a...

— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)

Date: 1727

"For it's whole Systeme Aims at this, to make the Furniture of every Person's Mind Alike, their Reason and Faculties the same, and which Garniture, after it has made it a Rasa Tabula, must be of it's own Supplying; 'Tis an Empty Room, without any Thing to Set if off or Adorn it, till this Philoso...

— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)

Date: 1727

"We rather take Notice of this here; Because this Philosophy had made the Mind a Rasa Tabula, or a Blank Paper, or an Empty and Void Room without any Furniture, which therefore it was to Supply; And this is done by Storing it with it's Simple Ideas from Sensation and Reflection, and from thence D...

— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)

Date: 1727

Artificial Memory "Consisted in making Choice of a Certain Number of Loci, or Places, which were Distinguished from each Other by their Order, of First, Second, &c. by Various Spaces, Figures, and Intervals, and by Certain Marks and Characters, where were Affixed to every Fifth, or Tenth p...

— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)

Date: Friday, April 14, 1727

"A Man of true Honour will as soon break open a Lock as a Letter, which does not belong to him; and pick his Neighbour's Pocket, as soon as discover his Nakedness in this Respect; for a Letter, being the Representative of the Person's Heart, who sends it, ought to pass, without Examination or Int...

— Caleb d'Anvers [pseud. for Nicholas Amhurst, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Pulteney, Earl of Bath]

Date: 1728

"At our Birth the Imagination is intirely a Tabula Rasa or perfect Blank, without any other Materials either for a Simple View or any Other Operation of the Intellect"

— Browne, Peter (d. 1735)

Date: 1728

"With respect to the simple Perception of Mere Sense he is still upon the same Level with Brutes; he is altogether Passive; he retains all the Signatures and Impressions of outward Objects, but in the very Order only in which they are stamped; with Transposing or Altering, Dividing, or Compoundin...

— Browne, Peter (d. 1735)