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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

"An essay concerning human understanding" by John Locke,1690,Empirical theory of Knowledge

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At birth the mind is a blank tablet ;
no one is born with innate ideas.
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All of our ideas come from experience,either from sensation or by reflection.
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All simple,uncompounded ideas come from experience ;
and the mind,by combining single ideas,forms new complex ideas.
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The qualities of objects are either primary or secondary ;
primary qualities - solidity,extension,figure,mobility,and number - are inseparable from objects ;
but secondary qualities - such as colors and odors - are in the observer.
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The substance of objects is a something - we know not what -
which we have to assume as the support of an object's qualities.
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