...their mutual relations, of their causes • and limits. Ills object was, as he himself phrases jt,_^lo inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge; together with the grounds and degrees—of \ belief, opinion, and assent." This task he undertakes not in the dogmatic spirit of...

...hardly have detected in it any incompleteness". Locke's design, however, as he explains it himself, was " to inquire into the original, certainty, and...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent" (Book I. ch. i . section 2); and these are, almost in so many words, the headings of chapters of the...

...which contain some truth already, and the promise of more. Locke states it as his purpose ' to enquire into the original certainty and extent of human knowledge,...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion and assent, . . . and to consider the discerning faculties of a man, as they are employed about the objects (ie...

...which contain some truth already, and the promise of more. Locke states it as his purpose 'to enquire into the original certainty and extent of human knowledge,...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion and assent,. . . and to consider the discerning faculties of a man, as they are employed about the objects (ie ideas)...

...of their mutual relations, of their causes and limits. His object was, as he himself phrases it, " to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent." This task he undertakes not in the dogmatic spirit of his predecessors, but in the critical spirit...

...mind, of their mutual relations, of their causes and limits. His object was, as he himself phrases it, "to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent." This task he undertakes not in the dogmatic spirit of his predecessors, but in the critical spirit...

...this possible, language and metaphysics j would be alike gainers. The task which Locke set himself was ' to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge.' This inquiry he divides into two branches. First, an examination of ' the original of ! those ideas,...

...perfectly natural. The task which Locke set himself in writing the " Essay on Human Understanding " was, " to inquire into the original certainty and...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion and assent"; or, as we would express it to-day, to examine into the objects of perception, and the principles of...

...perfectly natural. The task which Locke set himself in writing the " Essay on Human Understanding" was, "to inquire into the original certainty and extent...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion and assent " ; or, as we would express it to-day, to examine into the objects of perception, and the principles...

...the reasons which conducted me to that conclusion. The purpose of Locke, as he himself expresses it, was " to inquire into the original, certainty, and...extent of human knowledge, together with the grounds of belief, opinion, and assent ' ' ( Essay i . i. 2). As the basis of his inquiry he assumes that no...