...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...

...distinction; for, in the introduction to the Essay he declares : ' ' This, therefore, being my purpose : to inquire into the original certainty and extent...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion and assent— I shall not at present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind, or trouble myself to examine...

...anything of the real ? Is our knowledge real knowledge ? Thus we have Locke giving us as his problem : " To inquire into the original, certainty, and extent...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent *," he wishes to " set and internal presentation. Wundt accordingly calls this immediately given fact...

...Understand- 167l untii its publication in 1690. He explains that it is an inquiry into the "origin, certainty, and extent of human knowledge ; together...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent". " It is", he declares, "the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives...

...history of philosophy. Its object, as explained in the introduction, was "to inquire into the origin, certainty, and extent of human knowledge, together...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent." Sir Richard Steele, the friend of Addison, led a somewhat wayward life. He left Oxford without taking...

...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...

...start under the criticism of Locke, \vlio deliberately set himself the preliminary task of inquiring ' into the original, certainty and extent of human knowledge, together with the grounds of belief, opinion, and assent.' How do we come by our knowledge and what are its limits? These are...

...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...

...directing our thoughts in the search of other things. This, therefore, being my purpose, to enquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent ; I shall not at present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind, or trouble myself to examine...

...own object 3) ". Locke will seine Untersuchung richten auf: „the original, certainty, and extent oi human knowledge, together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent 4 )". Das genannte Hauptwerk Lockes zerfällt in vier Bücher. Das erste Buch trägt den Titel: „Neither...