Knowledge acquisition is a method of learning, first proposed by Aristotle in his seminal work "Organon". Aristotle proposed that the mind at birth is a blank slate, or tabula rasa. As a blank slate it contains no knowledge of the objective, empirical universe, nor of itself.
("Knowing subject" is often the description of a mind with acquired knowledge; It is found in the writings of David Hume, Karl Popper, and many others. [See also subject-obj...
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Knowledge acquisition is a method of learning, first proposed by Aristotle in his seminal work "Organon". Aristotle proposed that the mind at birth is a blank slate, or tabula rasa. As a blank slate it contains no knowledge of the objective, empirical universe, nor of itself.
("Knowing subject" is often the description of a mind with acquired knowledge; It is found in the writings of David Hume, Karl Popper, and many others. [See also subject-object problem]. Therefore, a human mind cannot be a "knowing subject" until it has "acquired knowledge". "Acquired" in this sense can be either an adjective, as in "that which has been acquired"; or a verb, as in the act of acquisition.)
As a method, it is opposed to the concept of "a priori" knowledge, and to "intuition" when conceived as religious revelation.
It has been suggested that the mind is "hard wired" to begin operating at birth, beginning a lifetime process of acquisition through abstraction, induction, and conception.
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