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  1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,work by the English philosopher John Locke, published in 1689, that presents an elaborate and sophisticated empiricist account of …

  2. John Locke

    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 …

  3. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

    In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Locke established the philosophy of empiricism, which holds that the mind at birth is a blank tablet. Experience, Locke believed, …

  4. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Recommended edition: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Peter H. Nidditch (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975). …

  5. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

    The Project Gutenberg eBook of An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, by by John Locke This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most …

  6. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

    John Locke’s purpose in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is to inquire into the origin and extent of human knowledge. His conclusion—that all knowledge is derived from …

  7. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume …

    "An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1" by John Locke is a philosophical treatise written during the late 17th century. The work mainly explores the nature of human understanding, asserting that …