Who proposed that the mind at birth is a blank slate (tabula rasa)?
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Correct answer: A. John Locke
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Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) compares the newborn mind to 'white paper' furnished by experience — the empiricist tabula rasa.
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