- Empiricism is the philosophical position that all human knowledge comes from experience.
- John Locke’s “tabula rasa” (“Man is a blank slate at birth”) is well known.
Nishio’s Position
- Organisms have “favorable characteristics” for innate by mutation and [natural selection
- So “tabula rasa” is a science fallacy.
- On the other hand, it is not useful to think about one’s personal future decision-making, which has already been born, because innate characteristics are unchangeable.
- It is important to acquire knowledge from experience → way of learning.
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