Book · 1690 · Nonfiction

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Name: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Author: John Locke

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. · 416 pages

★ 7.1 editorial score

Nothing is in the mind at birth, Locke says. It is blank paper, and everything you know arrives through the senses or through watching your mind work. British empiricism runs out from there.

Genre

Philosophy Epistemology

Subject

Perception Knowledge

Time

1690Depicts Age of Enlightenment

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