““The view that correspondence knowledge of independent reality requires passive cognition has been around for a long time. In De anima, Aristotle uses Plato’s image of the mind as a wax tablet to describe the passivity of sense perception, the necessary origin of most knowledge (424a18–20). He then claims that the intellect which takes the forms from these impressions must itself be blank in order to avoid distorting the impression taken from reality.””
