1 Preparatory Remarks Locke asserts that " the Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; But the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. " 1 On an unsophisticated way of taking his words, he means that ideas of primary qualities are like the qualities they represent...

The paper examines Robert Filmer's arguments in defence of the divine right kings Patriarcha, or Natural Power Kings. Filmer argues that human beings are not born free by nature and, as a result, expected to obey kings/monarchs absolutely without questioning, due arbitrary power and bestowed upon kings. This position defended is antithetical notion natural freedom mankind John Locke other socia...

This document shows the detailed specification of LOCKE coherence protocol for each cache controller, using a table‐based technique [1]. This representation provides clear, concise visual information yet includes sufficient detail (e.g., transient states) arguably lacking in the traditional, graphical form of state diagrams. Table I shows detailed specifications of a L1 cache controller. States...

American parents and school leaders are debating whether critical race gender theories belong in public schools, with many turning to home school. Many of these will instinctively rely on John Locke’s educational theory, since he famously argued for parental control education. This essay summarize theory then survey some moments history reveal that political have often wavered between individua...

Locke has a theory about the idea of substance considered as a ‘substratum’ or ‘support’ of qualities.1 It is a strange theory, according to which one part of our conceptual apparatus is both important and disreputable. Nothing else in the writings of any philosopher matches the doubleness of attitude of the passages about substratum in Locke’s Essay. This duplicity has been noted by students o...

Many terms can be used to evaluate beliefs, belief-forming processes, and other similar mental states and processes of reasoning. Such mental states and processes can be called “right” or “wrong”, “correct” or “incorrect”, “reasonable” or “unreasonable”, “justified” or “unjustified”, and so on. In recent years, ever since Tyler Burge gave his John Locke lectures in Oxford in 1993, many philosop...

1 Introduction Robert Brandom's follow-up to the monumental Making it Explicit 1 —in anticipation of which many have waited with baited breath—has finally appeared. Between Saying and Doing 2 is the text of his John Locke Lectures, delivered at the University of Oxford in 2006. Although Brandom is keen to insist that the two enterprises the books contain 'are largely orthogonal', many of the pr...

This paperback is a typical example of the flood of American textbooks lately reissued in the U.K. As an exposition of what is considered important for US students to know, the information is all right. However, such books leave out any reference to British contributions in their fields, and therefore present the British student with an incomplete picture. One might conclude from this publicati...