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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

by John LOCKE (1632 - 1704)

Of the idea of infinity Part I

John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes the notion of innate ideas and argues against a number of propositions that rationalists offer as universally accepted truth. In the second book Locke elaborates the role played by sensation, reflection, perception and retention in giving rise to simple ideas. Then he elaborates on how different modes, substances and relations of simple ideas (of the same kind) give rise to complex ideas v.g. space, time, infinity etc. Finally he discusses complex ideas of mixed modes which arise from a combination of simple ideas of different kinds v.g. identity and diversity, cause and effect, etc. (Summary by bala) Prooflistening for this project was done by bala and Rapunzelina

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Of our complex ideas of substances Part II , Of ideas of identity and diversity Part II , Of adequate and inadequate ideas , Of clear and obscure, distinct and confused ideas , Of collective ideas of substances; of ideas of relation; of ideas of cause and effect, and other relations , Of ideas of identity and diversity Part I , Of ideas of other relations , Of mixed modes , Of other simple modes; of the modes of thinking ; of modes of pleasure and pain , Of our complex ideas of substances Part I , Of real and fantastical ideas , Of the association of ideas , Of the idea of infinity Part II , Of the idea of power Part I , Of the idea of power Part II , Of the idea of power Part III , Of the idea of power Part IV , Of true and false ideas