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Ep. 26 - Alan Charles Kors: Voltaire’s ‘Philosophical Letters,’ Part I

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The Human Mind Is a Blank Slate

Voltaire believes that the human mind is active, and has inherent logical qualities. He says it can frame hypotheses for testing of theory in natural philosophy. But like locke, he believes that designing and experiment is irrational empirical use ofmind.

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