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Locke's Attack on Innate Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Grenville Wall
Grenville Wall
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Middlesex Polytechnic
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Philosophy , Volume 49 , Issue 190 , October 1974 , pp. 414 - 419
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1974

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References

1 Gibson, J., Locke's Theory of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 1917), Ch. II, §6.Google Scholar

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6 No doubt Locke chose to develop his criticisms against such principles first, before applying them to moral and religious principles, (a) because they seemed to be particularly good candidates for innateness, (b) because his criticisms might be more impartially considered when deployed against abstract principles.

7 Essay, I, ii, 3Google Scholar. All references are to the Everyman edition (Dent, 1961) edited by J. W. Yolton. All italics are reproduced from the text.

8 I, ii, 4.

9 I, ii, 5.

10 I, ii, 5.

11 I, ii, 5.

12 I, iii, 1–2.

13 I, iii, 9–13.

14 I, iv, 1–8.

15 I, ii, 7.

16 I, iii, 27.

17 Op. cit., Ch. II.

18 See for example Yolton's quotation from Sherlock, William's Digression Concerning Connate Ideas (1704)Google Scholar, ibid., p. 61.

19 I, iv, 25.

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21 See for example I, ii, 16.

22 I, iii, 4.

23 See for example, I, iii, 13 and 14, and I, iv, 12.

24 I, ii, 1.

25 See I, i, 5, and I, iv, 12 and 23.

26 See also I, iv, 12 and 22.

27 I, iv, 13.