... born with enough basic knowledge to enable us to avoid pain and seek pleasure. Locke wrote his essay concerning human understanding in 1690 offering the renowned metaphor comparing the mind to lank slate on which experience writes. This statement clearly and concisely describes his ... belief that human understanding ultimately derives from experiences that are perceived through the senses, not through some kind of predetermined reaction. "No man's ... us no innate ideas of himself." Locke takes God's existence to be "the most obvious truth reason discovers." John Locke and David Hume u...

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... can be seen as a correction (rather than an analysis) of the general, unconsidered views of the average person which can be categorised as nave realism. In his work, An essay concerning human understanding, Locke discusses the theory that the ideas we have, in our minds, of the external world are merely representative of what is really out there. He considers how much we ... great uncertainty as to where or how a line between the two can be drawn. BIBLIOGRAPHY J.F. Bennett, Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes, Clarendon Press, 1971 G Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge, Collins, 1...

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