Editing Tabula rasa (section)

=== Ibn Sina (11th century) ===
In the 11th century, the theory of ''tabula rasa'' was developed more clearly by [[Avicenna|Ibn Sina]]. He argued that the "human intellect at birth resembled a ''tabula rasa'', a pure potentiality that is actualized through education and comes to know." Thus, according to Ibn Sina, knowledge is attained through "[[empirical]] familiarity with objects in this world from which one abstracts universal concepts," which develops through a "[[Syllogism|syllogistic]] method of [[reasoning]]; observations lead to propositional statements, which when compounded lead to further abstract concepts." He further argued that the intellect itself "possesses levels of development from the static/material intellect, that potentiality can acquire knowledge to the active intellect, the state of the human intellect at conjunction with the perfect source of knowledge."<ref>Rizvi, Sajjad H. 2006. "[http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/avicenna.htm Avicenna/Ibn Sina (CA. 980–1037)]." ''[[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]].''</ref>