Imagine starting with a blank slate. How do we know what we know? Is our understanding of the world shaped by the ideas in our minds or by what we experience? This was a huge question for two philosophers who lived long ago – René Descartes and John Locke. They had very different answers, and their arguments continue to shape how people think about knowledge.
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