The Mind as an "Empty Container"
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Title
The Mind as an "Empty Container"
Subject
English Philosophy, Human Understanding, Mind Metaphors
Description
A passage from John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Creator
John Locke
Source
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Date
1689
Contributor
Corey Goergen
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Passage
Coverage
Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
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Text
The senses at first let in particular ideas, and furnish the yet empty cabinet, and the mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the memory, and names got to them. Afterwards, the mind proceeding further, abstracts them, and by degrees learns the use of general names. In this manner the mind comes to be furnished with ideas and language, the materials about which to exercise its discursive faculty.
Citation
John Locke, “The Mind as an "Empty Container",” Enlightenmens, accessed April 1, 2023, http://enlightenmens.lmc.gatech.edu/items/show/12.