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Locke thought that we can have ideas of things that we have not experienced.

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Locke thought that we can have ideas of things that we have not experienced.

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The statement to evaluate is: 'Locke thought that we can have ideas of things that we have not experienced.'

Begin by recalling Locke's central claim about the origin of ideas: all ideas originate from experience, either via sensation (information from the senses) or reflection (the mind's internal operations on those ideas). He explicitly rejects the notion of innate ideas, arguing that the mind at birth is a tabula rasa and that all knowledge arises from experience.

Given this framework, the possibility of having ideas of things we have not experienced would require either innately present ideas or ideas that come from some source other than experience. Locke denies both premises. He maintains that complex ideas are assembled from simpler ideas acquired through sensation or reflection, not conjured from nowhere or from inherent knowledge of things not encountered.

Therefore, the claim that we can have ideas of things we have not experienced conflicts with Locke's theory. If someone interprets 'things we have not experienced' as entirely novel entities beyond any sensory or reflective content, Locke would say we cannot form genuine ideas of them. If one insists on ideas of things never encountered by the senses but imagined, Locke would still trace the basis of those ideas to prior experiences or to combinations of experiences.

In summary, under Locke's empiricist view, all ideas derive from experience; thus the statement that we can have ideas of things we have not experienced is not consistent with his position.

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