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What did John Locke mean when he said men minds is a blank slate and that man can subsequently learn and improve through conscious effort?
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∙ 13y ago
Questions like this are hard to answer as they are intended as statements of political concepts.
Basically he meant that humans are born as a blank slate, and learn as they grow, but that it takes an effort on the part of the person to actually learn anything or improve their understanding of things.
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