An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781110090204 (111009020X)
Publish date: April 23rd 2009
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Pages no: 314
Edition language: English
This treatise published in 1689 was listed in Good Reading's "100 Significant Books." It's a work of epistemology--the branch of philosophy that examines knowledge. Rejecting Descartes' argument of innate principles, Locke argues that humans at birth are a blank slate written on by experience. Loc...
Locke’s Essay is considered a foundational work for the new empiricism which arose out of the friction between Descartes with his rationalist followers and the old-school Aristotelian empiricists of the Scholastics. In true empiricist form, Locke binds himself to the proposition that all knowledge ...
GAH!Okay, I like philosophy, but everything has limits!I had to read this book for an assignment I have, and well, it was...weird?John Locke kept on saying something and after some pages going all against to what he previously said.His opinions?I don't know if I agree, I was too absorbed trying to m...
12 years ago
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