Question
Who was Locke contemporary to?
What did he write about?
State what Empiricism is.
Complete these definitions according to Locke's
theories.
Answer
Locke was a contemporary of René Descartes. He wrote about the philosophy of empiricism, which is the belief that knowledge comes from experience and observation rather than from innate ideas or reasoning. According to Locke's theories, empiricism is the idea that all knowledge is derived from experience and that the mind is a tabula rasa, or blank slate, at birth.