A distinction between complex and simple ideas, and the argument that the mind of newborns is a tabula rasa, or a blank slate, are presented in, for 10 points, what 1689 work of epistemology authored by John Locke?
This book argues that it would be "very improper" to report that the story of "Nisus and Euryalus" is in Bodley's library instead of saying it is "about the middle of the ninth book of his Aeneid" in a discussion about the relativity of "place." It presents the example of a "gazing countryman" who is unable to understand the "great clock at Strasbourg," since he "barely sees the notion of the hand" and thus observes only some "outward appearances." Thus, this book distinguishes between (*) nominal and real essences, holding that "scientific knowledge" is only gleaned when the two essences are the same. A distinction between complex and simple ideas, and the argument that the mind of newborns is a tabula rasa, or a blank slate, are presented in, for 10 points, what 1689 work of epistemology authored by John Locke?
This book argues that it would be "very improper" to report that the story of "Nisus and Euryalus" is in Bodley's library instead of saying it is "about the middle of the ninth book of his Aeneid" in a discussion about the relativity of "place.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 