An essay concerning human understanding

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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 conve...

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Knowledge, Theory of

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Oxford world's classics paperback

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ISBN:

9780199296620 (pbk.)
0199296626 (pbk.)

Description:

lvi, 520 p. ; 20 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xliv]-li) and index

Contents:

Introduction
Locke's life and writing
Essay concerning human understanding
Book 1 and 2: Ideas and Principles
Book 3: Language and abstraction
Book 4: Knowledge
Reception and Legacy
Note on the text
Select bibliography
Chronology of John Locke
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Appendix: Extracts from Locke's letter to Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester
Explanatory notes
Index

LCCN:

2008021774

Control Number:

916492

Other Authors:

Phemister, Pauline

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