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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, work by the English philosopher John Locke, published in 1689, that presents an elaborate and sophisticated empiricist account of the nature, origins, and extent of human knowledge.
Sep 2, 2001 · John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704) was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher. Locke’s monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) is one of the first great defenses of modern empiricism and concerns itself with determining the limits of human understanding in respect to a wide spectrum of topics.
An essay concerning human understanding. Names. Locke, John, 1632-1704. Created / Published. Philadelphia, Troutman & Hayes; 1853. Headings. - Knowledge, Theory of. Notes. - Also available in digital form. Medium. 524 p. fold. tab. 23 cm. Call Number/Physical Location. B1290 1853. Library of Congress Control Number. 15000604. Online Format.
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7. IV. Fourthly, because our senses assist one another’s testimony of the existence of outward things, and enable us to predict. Our senses in many cases bear witness to the truth of each other’s report, concerning the existence of sensible things without us.
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Recommended edition: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Peter H. Nidditch (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975). Excerpt: Since it is the understanding, that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion, which he has over them; it is certainly a ...
