[lucky_girl]

Write about: empiricism as best theory in world

[Wondergirl]

What have you written so far?

[lucky_girl]

I wrote the defination and what Locke, Berkeley, Hume talk about it. What else I can write in this?

[Wondergirl]

What's the assignment? How long is it to be? Is your opinion important and supposed to be in the essay?

[Wondergirl]

Did you discuss tabula rasa?

Others are Aristotle, William of Ockham, Francis Bacon, and John Stuart Mill.

The assignment says to tell why this method is the BEST.

[lucky_girl]

No I did not mention that... ya its imporatnt... its kind of essay

[Wondergirl]

no i did not mention that...ya its imporatnt...its kind of essay

How long is it to be? How many words?

Your opinion counts since you have to decide if it is the BEST theory.

[lucky_girl]

She did not say words... but I have to write 3 or 4 pages... I have to write like what is empiricism and how john locke is define it.

[Wondergirl]

she did not say words...but i have to write 3 or 4 pages....i have to write like what is empiricism and how john locke is define it.

Did you mention that tabula rasa is the opposite of Christian philosophy and why?

[lucky_girl]

No I did not mention it.

[Wondergirl]

no i did not mention it.

That's an entire 35-page paper all by itself.

[Wondergirl]

Another ten pages could be written on this quote from Wikipedia --

Locke also wrote that "the little and almost insensible impressions on our tender infancies have very important and lasting consequences" [Some Thoughts, p.10]. He argued that the "associations of ideas" that one makes when young are more important than those made later because they are the foundation of the self: they are, put differently, what first mark the tabula rasa. In his Essay, in which is introduced both of these concepts, Locke warns against, for example, letting "a foolish maid" convince a child that "goblins and sprites" are associated with the night for "darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other"[p.357].

"Associationism", as this theory would come to be called, exerted a powerful influence over eighteenth-century thought, particularly educational theory, as nearly every educational writer warned parents not to allow their children to develop negative associations. It also led to the development of psychology.

[lucky_girl]

Can I have that page link. I just want to write 3 or 4 pages.

[Wondergirl]

can i have that page link. i just want to write 3 or 4 pages.

Google the Wikipedia entry for John Locke.

Don't plagiarize.

[lucky_girl]

OK thank you so much for your help

[Wondergirl]

ok thank you so much for your help

Will you make it to 3-4 pages?

[Wondergirl]

Be sure to have someone good in English proofread it for you. Best wishes!