Otto Neurath borrowing from Marx held that social science devoid from metaphysics would imply that this did not exist for humanity.
Otto Neurath borrowing from Marx held that social science devoid from metaphysics would imply that this did not exist for humanity. Claude-Adrien Helvetius' in his work, De L'Espirit  took the opposite extreme, and was condemned by the Church for his radical environmental determinism. Henry More disagreed with its popular formulation and suggested there is indeed an active sagacity in the Soul and according to the Platonic dialogue the Meno, the untutored slave boy's recollection of a geometric theorem denies the existence of this. Expressed in relation to innate knowledge in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,  for 10 points, name this epistemological thesis popularized by John Locke, which claims that humans are born with no innate ideas or mental content, Latin for "blank slate."
Otto Neurath borrowing from Marx held that social science devoid from metaphysics would imply that this did not exist for humanity.
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