An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1
John Locke · English
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1689, is John Locke's inquiry into the origin, certainty, and extent of human knowledge.
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1689, is John Locke's inquiry into the origin, certainty, and extent of human knowledge. This first volume opens with Locke's dedication to the Earl of Pembroke and his Epistle to the Reader, followed by Books I and II. Book I argues against innate ideas and principles. Book II holds that all ideas come from experience, through sensation and reflection, and traces how the mind builds complex ideas from simple ones, with chapters on primary and secondary qualities, space, time, power, substance, personal identity, and the association of ideas.
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1
John Locke · English
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1689, is John Locke's inquiry into the origin, certainty, and extent of human knowledge.
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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS, EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY, BARON HERBERT OF CARDIFF LORD ROSS, OF KENDAL, PAR, FITZHUGH, MARMION, ST. QUINTIN, AND SHURLAND;
Pagera Editor's Note
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1689, is John Locke's inquiry into the origin, certainty, and extent of human knowledge. This first volume opens with Locke's dedication to the Earl of Pembroke and his Epistle to the Reader, followed by Books I and II. Book I argues against innate ideas and principles. Book II holds that all ideas come from experience, through sensation and reflection, and traces how the mind builds complex ideas from simple ones, with chapters on primary and secondary qualities, space, time, power, substance, personal identity, and the association of ideas.
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