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Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The mind starts as blank paper, and every idea comes from experience: sensation and reflection.

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Volume
33 of the 1990 set
Author
John Locke (1632–1704)
Work
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1689

Ideas: The senses and experience How we know anything The mind Words and meaning

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Nothing before it: a good place to start.

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This is one of the top rungs of The Enlightenment.

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