John Locke's Opinion On True Knowledge
“The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own object (Cahn, Location:23335).” John Locke’s opinion on true knowledge is that it comes from the experience which comes from some kind of substance, such as our five senses. Locke’s purpose as he states, “to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge, together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent (Cahn, Location: 23347).” Firstly, Locke has believed that children and idiots are to be born into this world without the knowledge. But as Locke states in the text, “No proposition can be said to be in the mind which it never yet knew, which it was never yet conscious of (Cahn, Location:23404).” What he means by this is that children and idiots may see things as they are but they will not know what they unless they are educated on such things.” However, “children cannot be ignorant of them: infants, and all that have souls, much necessarily have them in their
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It’s the idea of what’s received by touching something or when “two bodies are moved towards another (Cahn, Location: 23529).” Another aspect of solidity is that it takes up space. If we were to imagine a tree in between two buildings, that idea of the solid substance, tree, takes up the space that neither building could come into contact with one another, unless we remove the tree. Now if we go into further detail as to what solidity is Locke gives an even better example, “let him put a flint or a football between his hands, and then endeavor to join them, and he will know (Cahn, Location: 23557).” What he means by this is that flint or football is the substance, solid object, that in which stands in the way of the hands coming
It’s the idea of what’s received by touching something or when “two bodies are moved towards another (Cahn, Location: 23529).” Another aspect of solidity is that it takes up space. If we were to imagine a tree in between two buildings, that idea of the solid substance, tree, takes up the space that neither building could come into contact with one another, unless we remove the tree. Now if we go into further detail as to what solidity is Locke gives an even better example, “let him put a flint or a football between his hands, and then endeavor to join them, and he will know (Cahn, Location: 23557).” What he means by this is that flint or football is the substance, solid object, that in which stands in the way of the hands coming