An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 (Books 3 and 4)
John Locke
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Books Three and Four of Locke's Essay, gathered in volume two, turn from the origin of ideas to language and to knowledge itself. Book Three asks how words hook onto ideas, and how badly they can mislead when they do not. Book Four asks what we can truly claim to know, and with what certainty.
Locke's famous distinction between primary qualities, like solidity, and secondary qualities, like color, stands here, along with his degrees of knowledge and his defense of probability where proof runs out. The volume completes empiricism's founding document. Paired with volume one, it shows a philosophy trying to be honest about the limits of the human mind.
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| CREATOR | John Locke |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 689 KB |
| LICENSE | Project Gutenberg License |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |