位置28的问题 Identify the following statement as A. True or B. False: According to Locke's empiricist principle, it is possible but very hard to get ideas about things which we have not yet had an experience of. TrueFalse单项选择题
A
True
B
False

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位置28的问题 Identify the following statement as A. True or B. False: According to Locke's empiricist principle, it is possible but very hard to get ideas about things which we have not yet had an experience of. TrueFalse单项选择题

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True

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False

BlackTom AI · Accepted Answer

Let’s break down the statement and what Locke argues about ideas and experience.
Option A: 'True' — The claim that it is possible but very hard to get ideas about things which we have not yet had an experience of.
- According to Locke’s empiricist principle, all ideas originate from experience, either via sensation or reflection. There are no innate ideas, and our mind starts blank and is filled through experiences.
- Because no ideas are pre-formed outside experience, the notion that we can have ideas about things we have not yet experienced would contradict the core empiricist claim. The phrase 'possible but very hard' introduces the idea that unexperienced things can be conceived in some way, which Locke would deny since there is no source for such ideas prior to experience.
- Therefore, this option misstates the empiricist view by implying passage to unexperienced entities is at least conceptually possible, albeit difficult, which Locke would not endorse.

Option B: 'False' — The claim that it is not possible to have ideas about things we have not yet experienced.
- This aligns with Locke’s central claim: ideas derive from sensation and reflection; without experience, there are no ideas to form about absent objects or states.
- The assertion 'it is possible' would require some non-experiential source of ideas, which empiricism denies; thus the statement is inconsistent with Locke’s framework.
- The word 'very hard' is a red herring here, because the empiricist position rejects the possibility altogether rather than accepting a difficulty level of obtaining such ideas.

In summary, recognizing the structure of Locke’s theory helps clarify the contrast: thinking of unexperienced things as a source of ideas would contradict the empiricist thesis, so the 'True' option contains a fundamental mischaracterization, while the 'False' option correctly reflects the idea that ideas come from experience and cannot be had without it.

位置28的问题 Identify the following statement as A. True or B. False: According to Locke's empiricist principle, it is possible but very hard to get ideas about things which we have not yet had an experience of. TrueFalse单项选择题

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