Chapter 15 John Locke : Theory of knowledge
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چکیده
In the previous chapter we have outlined some fundamental doctrines of Locke’s empiricism. We have examined his concepts of simple and complex ideas which are the archetypes of knowledge according to empiricist epistemology. The ideas of substances, modes and relations are the three types of complex ideas our mind forms by combining the simple ideas received from multiple sources. Before we proceed further, we need to understand how knowledge is gained from ideas. We learn that the notion of idea plays a crucial role in the empiricist epistemology, as Locke proposes an ideation theory in order to explain the concept of knowledge.
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