Bliss ’ s concern about semantics finds an early referent in John Locke, whose Essay Concerning Human Understanding prevented people from those " vague and insignificant forms of speech " that may give the impression of being deep learning.

In response to the early-to-mid-17th century " continental rationalism " John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ) proposed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689 ) a very influential view wherein the only knowledge humans can have is a posteriori, i. e., based upon experience.

In the Netherlands, Locke had time to return to his writing, spending a great deal of time re-working the Essay and composing the Letter on Toleration.

John Locke used the terms semeiotike and semeiotics in Book 4, Chapter 21 of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1690 ).

* Locke, John, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Kenneth P. Winkler ( ed.

John Locke, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, defined extension as " only the Space that lies between the Extremities of those solid coherent Parts " of a body.

* John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

In his Introduction to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke defines idea as " that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking ; and I could not avoid frequently using it.

" The novel inspired the concept of " tabula rasa " developed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1690 ) by Locke, who was a student of Pococke.

# John Locke – Letter Concerning Toleration ; Of Civil Government ; Essay Concerning Human Understanding ; Thoughts Concerning Education

* An Essay Concerning Human Understanding-John Locke

* Catherine Trotter Cockburn-A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding ( re John Locke )

* Thomas Burnet-Remarks upon An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding ( on John Locke )

* John Locke has the first abstract of his seminal " Essay concerning Human Understanding " appear in Leclerc's Bibliotheque universelle

For, Locke was a contemporary of Watts, and in the Logic there are several references to Locke and his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, in which Locke espoused his empiricist views.

In 1690, Locke wrote against the idea in an essay called " An Essay on Human Understanding ".

A passage Locke later added to the Essay concerning Human Understanding, questioned whether atheism was necessarily inimical to political obedience.

# John Locke – A Letter Concerning Toleration ; Of Civil Government ; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ; Some Thoughts Concerning Education

In Locke ’ s Essay on the Human Understanding.

John Locke appended his indexing scheme for commonplace books to a printing of his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

In his 1690 tract An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke compares one who would say that properties inhere in " substance " to the Indian who said the world was on an elephant which was on a tortoise " but being again pressed to know what gave support to the broad-backed tortoise, replied — something, he knew not what.

In his 1690 Essay Concerning Human Understanding English physician and philosopher John Locke argued that the child resembled a blank tablet ( tabula rasa ) at birth, and was not inherently full of sin.

In response to Locke, he put forth in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge ( 1710 ) an important challenge to empiricism in which things only exist either as a result of their being perceived, or by virtue of the fact that they are an entity doing the perceiving.

* John Locke publishes his influential book Some Thoughts Concerning Education.

Concerning " free will ", most early modern philosophers, including Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume believed that the term was frequently used in a wrong or illogical sense, and that the philosophical problems concerning any difference between " will " and " free will " are due to verbal confusion ( because all will is free ):

It was Locke, who, in his Letter Concerning Toleration, defined the state in purely secular terms: " The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing their own civil interests.

It was the philosopher John Locke who first seems to have advocated targeting children as a special audience in Some Thoughts Concerning Education ( 1693 ).

English philosopher John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ) published A Letter Concerning Toleration in 1689.

* Locke on Human Understanding ( London: Routledge, 1995 )

There is, however, a passage added in a later edition of the Essay concerning Human Understanding, where Locke perhaps questions " whether ' atheism ' was necessarily inimical to political obedience.

He also asserted that the absence of any reference to Hobbes, the questionable utility of refuting Hobbes when he was a non-issue in the most immediate debates, and the fact that Locke claims to have never read Hobbes or Spinoza, " those justly-decried names ," harms any interpretation that interprets Locke as in any way responding to Hobbes.

In modern times, a number of ensembles have adopted the term Consort in their names, such as the Jaye Consort, the Morley Consort, the Early Music Consort of London, the Purcell Consort of Voices, the Consort of Voices, the Quadriga Consort, the Locke Brass Consort, and the Rose Consort of Viols.

Both John Locke and his alias, Jeremy Bentham, are the names of British philosophers.

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Amy Chua's other thesis and her conclusions have been disputed by George Leef of the John Locke Foundation, who proposes that many other factors may account for ethnic violence, including the most simple motivation of pure racism.

Locke, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1690 ), had reduced data to its smallest part: the simple idea derived from sense.

The 18th-century Whigs borrowed the concepts and language of universal rights employed by political theorists Locke and Algernon Sidney ( 1622 – 82 ).

Du Bois and Alain Locke developed concepts of cultural pluralism, from which emerged what we understand today as multiculturalism.

Thus in a short time Charles's own cabinet, the Cabal Ministry, went over to the " Dutch " peace party ; Lord Shaftesbury, much shocked by the revelation, even beginning to consider driving out the troublesome House of Stuart entirely and inducing his secretary, John Locke, to further develop the legal concepts which would later be the basis of the Two Treatises of Government, which justified the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

These newspaper essays condemning tyranny and advancing principles of freedom of conscience and freedom of speech, were a main vehicle for spreading the concepts that had been introduced by John Locke.

Locke connects words to the ideas that they signify, claiming that man is unique in being able to separate sounds into distinct forms, and signify them with concepts, which become words and then that these words are built into language.