An essay concerning human understanding
by John Locke
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Overview: In An Essay concerning Human Understanding, John Locke sets out his theory of knowledge and how we acquire it. Eschewing doctrines of innate principles and ideas, Locke shows how all our ideas, even the most abstract and complex, are grounded in human experience and attained by sensation of external things or reflection upon our own mental activities. A thorough examination of the communication of ideas through language and the conventions of taking words as signs of ideas paves the way for his penetrating critique of the limitations of ideas and the extent of our knowledge of ourselves, the world, God, and morals.
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An essay concerning human understanding
2008, Oxford University Press
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An essay concerning human understanding
1959, Dover, Dover Publications
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An essay concerning human understanding
1825, Tegg
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
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An essay concerning human understanding: in four books
1735, Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch ... E. Parker ... J. and J. Pemberton ... and E. Symon ...
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [xliv]-li) and index.
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Locke's Essay ... (1690) withstood an onslaught by traditional theologians, for rejecting orthodox theology and the concept of innate ideas: as he suggested that God could make matter think. The Essay quickly became one of the most influential books of the eighteenth century, and its contributions to the philosophy of space and time, matter and power were quickly hailed as formative contributions to ... philosophy''--Amazon.com. https://allessay.org/princeton-supplemental-essays/
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