jan 1, 1690 - Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Contained four "books" (chapters) that consider the sources and nature of human knowledge:

Book I: Argues against innate knowledge (i.e. against Descartes)

Book II: (where "On Simple and Complex Ideas" came from) argues that ideas are the materials of knowledge and all ideas come from experience

Book III: addresses the role of language in the process of knowledge

Book IV: explains the nature and limits of knowledge

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