Avicenna (Ibn Sina):

The human intellect at birth is like a tabula rasa, a pure potentiality that is actualized through education and comes to know.

— Avicenna (Ibn Sina) Medieval

Persian polymath, Canon of Medicine

Philosophical writings on epistemology

11th century

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