Locke on Perception Michael Jacovides Revised 1/7/2012 For Locke, the first step in an investigation of perception should be reflection: “What Perception is, every one will know better by reflecting on what he does himself, when he sees, hears, feels, etc. or thinks, than by any discourse of mine” (2.9.2). As a second step, I say, we may learn from reading him. Locke’s use of the term ‘percepti...