akes from thence other ideas" This statement is important in that it claims that during the process of reflection, the mind observes its own action. As mentioned before Locke as an empiricist contended that there are no innate principles stamped upon the mind of human being, because principles such as "Whatever is, is" and "It is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be" are not innately known to people, but are a result of knowledge through learning. On this basis Locke assumed that for something to be in the mind it has to be perceived or be readily recalled in order to be knowledge. However Locke agreed that the knowledge of some truths were readily available in the mind from a very early age, for example a child knows the difference between the ideas of cold and warmth before it can speak and before it knows abstract ideas. Similarly Locke was eventually persuaded that there are some eternal pr
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