A Quote from "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"

A Quote from "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"

Philosophy and Epistemology

When Locke says "And thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities; which when I say the senses convey into the mind, I mean, they from external objects convey into the mind what produces there those perceptions" , he describes humans' power to know and there ability to know comes from their learned perception of the environment around them.

John Locke

Scholar Press

1690

Gregg Williamson

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English

Philosophy

"And thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities; which when I say the senses convey into the mind, I mean, they from external objects convey into the mind what produces there those perceptions."

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