TY - BOOK AU - Locke,John TI - An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1: MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 AV - B PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Knowledge, Theory of -- Early works to 1800 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_Concerning_Human_Understanding; Release date is 2004-01-01; Steve Harris and David Widger Updated: 2022-11-13; Original publication data not identified N2 - "An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1" by John Locke is a philosophical work first published in 1689. It challenges the notion that humans are born with innate ideas, arguing instead that the mind begins as a blank slate shaped entirely by experience. Locke examines how we acquire knowledge through sensation and reflection, distinguishes between primary and secondary qualities of objects, and explores personal identity, language, and the nature of understanding itself—laying crucial groundwork for modern empiricism. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10615 ER -