To illustrate his ideas about empiricism, John Locke says that the mind is like ______. Knowledge comes from ______

A. a blank slate or blank piece of paper/ the world outside of us writing on it
B. a blank slate or blank piece of paper/ the mind's internal powers writing on it
C. an empty wine jar/ philosophical insight filling up the jar
D. a stone tablet/ God writing on it


Answer: A

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