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"
preview | full record— 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...
preview | full record— Browne, Peter (d. 1735)
Date: 1732
"But suppose my Mind white Paper, and without being at any pains to extirpate my Opinions, or prove your own, only say what you wou'd write thereon, or what you wou'd teach me in case I were teacheable."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1739
"In reason's light, eternal word, exprest, / Stamp'd with his image in the creature's breast"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1744
"That philosopher [Aristotle] held that the mind of man was a tabula rasa, and that there were no innate ideas."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1744
"And notwithstanding the tabula rasa of Aristotle, yet some of his followers have undertaken to make him speak Plato's sense."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)