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See also knowledge based system  Knowledge acquisition is a
method of learning, first proposed by Aristotle in his seminal
work "Organon". Aristotle proposed that the mind at birth is a
blank slate, or tabula rasa. As a blank slate it contains no
knowledge of the objective, empirical universe, nor of itself.
("Knowing subject" is often the description of a mind with
acquired knowledge; but while no such page exits per se on
Wikipedia, the use of the phrase[1] is found throughout
Wikipedia, and in the writings of David Hume, Karl Popper, and
many others. [See also subject-object problem]. Therefore, a
human mind cannot be a "knowing subject" until it has "acquired
knowledge". "Acquired" in this sense can be either an adjective,
as in "that which has been acquired"; or a verb, as in the act
of acquisition.)  As a method, it is opposed to the concept of
"a priori" knowledge, and to "intutition" when conceived as
religious revelation.  It has be