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Is the mind a blank slate? John Locke's famous essay on Human Understanding

This video is a voice over of the introduction from John Locke's publication from 1689: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essa...

Author: John Locke

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