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... Knowledge Book I of the Essay is an attack on the theory that certain sorts of human knowledge are innate or , in other words , not acquired by the mind after it begins to exist or to be conscious , but part of its initial endowment ...
... Knowledge Book I of the Essay is an attack on the theory that certain sorts of human knowledge are innate or , in other words , not acquired by the mind after it begins to exist or to be conscious , but part of its initial endowment ...
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... theory of knowledge which would have been made without seriously affecting its basic principles . The two adjustments are : ( i ) to admit propositions as complex ideas ; ( ii ) to admit the logical relations between propositions as ...
... theory of knowledge which would have been made without seriously affecting its basic principles . The two adjustments are : ( i ) to admit propositions as complex ideas ; ( ii ) to admit the logical relations between propositions as ...
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... theories of type C need only minds and sense data.1 Now which type of theory are we to suppose that Locke held ? It is most natural to conclude that he held a theory of type B. His theory of knowledge presents what might be called a ...
... theories of type C need only minds and sense data.1 Now which type of theory are we to suppose that Locke held ? It is most natural to conclude that he held a theory of type B. His theory of knowledge presents what might be called a ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
The Aim and Method of Lockes Theory | 23 |
Ideas and Experience | 41 |
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