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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 comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

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This is John Lock's theory of the human mind. What is the mind? How does it function? Are humans born, like birds and animal, with instincts?

When a human baby is born, it has no language, no knowledge, no ideas, and no concepts. The mind is a blank slate (a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa), a piece of paper with nothing written on it.

But a grown man or woman has lots of knowledge, skills, thought and ideas., an endless variety of them.

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How does the woman acquire this store of knowledge? Where does it come from?

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Where does the mind get knowledge and the ability for critical thinking?

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