For Aristotle, a mind is ...
A) a sponge that sucks up knowledge and certainty.
B) a mirror of abstract ideas (universals).
C) like a writing tablet on which as yet nothing actually stands written.
D) like a reincarnated spirit.

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Aristotle believed that the mind is not a passive receptacle for knowledge or a mirror of pre-existing ideas (B), nor is it a reincarnated spirit (D). Rather, he saw the mind as a potentiality, like a blank writing tablet, that is capable of acquiring knowledge and forming beliefs through experience and the processes of perception, memory, and reasoning.

For Aristotle, a Mind Is