Compare Plato, 'Meno,' 80; Jowett, vol. ii., pp. 39, 40.

A criticism of the doctrine of the mind as a blank sheet of paper on which experience writes, as held by the Stoics in anticipation of Locke. See Zeller, 'Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics,' Reichel's translation, p. 76.