Locke proposed that all of our knowledge and ideas arise from experience. John Locke stated that all our knowledge and ideas can be traced to sensation, and reflection. Everything we see, touch, feel, hear, and taste gives us information. All the information gathered by our senses is processed by our brain, and is stored in the tabula rasa. We can also acquire knowledge through reflection. Reflection speaks about the ideas of our own mental operations . This means that the idea of hardness, brightness, smoothness, freshness, etc. is all from the ideas of sensation. On the other hand, “perceiving,” “remembering,” “abstracting,” and “thinking” are ideas of reflection. This concludes that everything we know, everything we believe, and everything we think about is made up of ideas and sensation and …show more content…
How do we know if something is real or exists in reality? Reality is divided into two: the physical reality and non-physical or immaterial reality. Physical reality is defined as an image created by the mind and is perceived by our body. “Images created in the Mind consist of thought, which gives the image form, and feelings or vibration, which gives the form substance that, can be perceived by one or more of the five physical senses .” Something is real because you know it exists. You are discovering what you are, and what you are not. Immaterial reality, on the other hand, is about non-physical concepts such as “character,” “mind,” and the “Good.” They cannot be measured or collected using our five