I think I’m going to write about the blank slate philosophy and whether or not I truly believe in it. The blank slate philosophy states that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception. In my Research Paper I talked about moral issue of dollhouse, whether what they were doing was right or wrong and I mentioned the blank slate philosophy and how may be dollhouse crossing it. In my Common Place paper I’m going to focus more on blank slate philosophy and whether I truly believe it or not. Some things that I wrote down as facts are.
Do I believe in the “blank slate” philosophy?
REASONS I DO
-Main reason most siblings are alike is the shared environment
-Parents will have a high expectation for kids
-Many highly educated people agree with it (Locke, Watson)
REASONS I DON'T
-kids are so much like their parents
-Athletes breed athletes
-Siblings are a like
-Usually smart parents have smart kids
-Usually hard working parents have hard working kids
-Studies show that even when kids are adopted they still turn out like their real parents
-Twins that are reared apart have similar IQ correlations to those IQs of twins reared together
-Twins are so much alike
HALF AND HALF
-Siblings have same genes so they act similar but also have the same environment which may be the cause.
So I guess that I have more reason's that I don't fully believe in it, but I can definitely see both sides to the argument.
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I think this really interesting and it could go both ways. A lot of the points that you make are true and make sense. It's all up to what people believe. I think your paper is going to be one that gives the reader a chance to form their opinion based on your facts.
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