Correct Answer - Option 1 : John Locke
John Locke can be called the founder of Empiricism, a theory according to which knowledge originates from sense – experience. He was against his predecessors who believed in innate ideas.
- Locke says that the infant's brain is like a white paper, the mind is empty. It is “Tabula Rasa”, an empty tablet.
- The mind has the capacity to apprehend but it is wrong to say that certain propositions are already there.
- The material of knowledge in infants comes from experience.
Locke said knowledge is of three kinds-
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Intuitive Knowledge
- which is the ideal, infallible and self-evident
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Demonstrative knowledge
- that is relational, analytic, concerning abstractions. Knowledge of morality, God’s existence and mathematical knowledge belong to this category
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Sensitive knowledge
- which is concerning co-existence, based on simple ideas of sense and complex ideas
Thus from above-mentioned points, it is clear that John Locke believed that an infant's brain is like a 'Tabula Rasa'.
