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 Tabula Rasa,
2010
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painterly abstract
expressionist painting is about Tabula Rasa (the
blank slate). Empiricist philosophers believe that the mind starts
out blank, and acquires knowledge as perceptions are impressed upon
it.
The empiricists criteria of meaning asserts that an idea is
meaningful only if there is an experience that corresponds to it.
Unfortunately the empiricist criteria of meaning renders the concept
of Tabula Rasa
meaningless for most people since most people have no recollection of it. We know from reason alone that in the first
moment of consciousness, we all must have experienced an empty-mind,
or we know this by remembering the experience as it was something
that reemerged later in life. Therefore these two foundational
beliefs of empirical philosophy are inconsistent for the vast
majority of people. It's only consistent for the enlightened few -
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John Chiappone
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