Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding Paperback - 2010
by John Locke
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and endeavored to make it so plain, that neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the significancy of their expressions to be inquired into. I have been told that a short epitome of this treatise, which was printed in 1688, was by some condemned without reading, because innate ideas were denied in it; they too hastily concluding, that if innate ideas were not supposed, there would be little left either of the notion or proof of spirits. If any one take the like offence at the entrance of this treatise, I shall desire him to read it through; and then I hope he will be convinced, that the taking away false foundations is not to the prejudice, but advantage, of truth, which is never inured or endangered so much as when mixed with, or built on, falsehood. In the second edition I added as f olloweth: ? The bookseller will not forgive me, if I say nothing of this second edition, which he has promised, by the correctness of it, shall make amends for the many faults committed in the former. He desires, too, that it should be known, that it has one whole new chapter concerning identity, and many additions and amendments in other places. These, I must inform my reader, are not all new matter, but most of them either farther confirmation of what I had said, or explications, to prevent others being mistaken in the sense of what was formerly printed, and not any variation in me from it: I must only except the alterations I have made in book ii. chap. xxi. What I had there writ concerning liberty and the will, I thought deserved as accurate a review as Iwas capable of: those subjects having in all ages exercised the learned part of t...
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- Title Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Author John Locke
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 98
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher General Books
- Date 2010-10
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780217858885 / 0217858880
- Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.2 in (24.61 x 18.90 x 0.51 cm)
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