An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
by John Locke · John Locke
Locke's 1689 treatise in the Clarendon scholarly edition: the attack on innate ideas, the derivation of all knowledge from sensation and reflection, primary and secondary qualities, personal identity, and the limits of what we can know.
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