Debate the issue of whether we all begin life as a blank slate, knowing nothing until we have experiences, or whether we come "hardwired" with some principles, rules, doctrines, expectations, and so forth, independent of learning (this is the philosophical version of psychology's nurture/nature debate). If all our learning comes from a combination of some percentage of these two sources, then where does creativity fit in? Is it possible to learn something that was never perceived by the senses or captured by our innate cognitive faculties?

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The Answer of Debate the issue of whether we all begin life as a blank slate, knowing nothing until we have experiences, or whether we come "hardwired" with some principles, rules, doctrines, expectations, and so forth, independent of learning (this is the philosophical version of psychology's nurture/nature debate). If all our learning comes from a combination of some percentage of these two sources, then where does creativity fit in? Is it possible to learn something that was never perceived by the senses or captured by our innate cognitive faculties?

Debate the Issue of Whether We All Begin Life as a Blank